Word: circe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presses were already rolling when word came at 2:18 p.m. of Patty Hearst's capture, but the San Francisco Examiner (circ. 163,391) managed a brief bulletin and roared back the next afternoon with the kind of volcanic front page that would have tickled Patty's flamboyant grandfather, Examiner Founder William Randolph Hearst. PATTY, ARE YOU COMING HOME? screamed a headline in WAR-DECLARED type. Editor-Publisher John R. ("Reg") Murphy contributed a copyrighted interview with Patty's parents about their first meeting with her since she was kidnaped more than 19 months...
...Genesis, Dude, Club, Game, Cavalier, Adam and Hustler, have been leaving less and less to the imagination. Playboy has expanded its Playmate of the Month spread from two or three pages to as many as nine. Penthouse routinely features male-female and female-female couples. Hefner's Oui (circ. 1.3 million), which set out three years ago to out-raunch Penthouse, is a virtual consumer guide to self-abuse, sadomasochism, bondage and other subjects that were once the province of hard-core porn...
Diverted Funds. In a racket-infested, violent industry, maverick Overdrive (circ. 56,000) speaks with high-tonnage authority. The chief author of the exposes is Jim Drinkhall, 35, the magazine's top investigative reporter, who specializes in the Teamsters' infamous and huge Central States $1.5 to $2 billion pension fund. Drinkhall roused a federal investigation in 1973 with articles showing that a $1.4 million Teamsters pension-fund loan, ostensibly given to a plastics company in New Mexico, was really used primarily to finance the Chicago syndicate's purchase of wiretapping equipment. He also revealed that the Tonight...
...Federal Communications Commission will make a long-awaited ruling that could turn Washington, D.C., into a one-newspaper town. The agency is expected to decide whether or not Texas Multimillionaire Joe L. Allbritton, who bought a controlling interest in the stuffy, money-losing Washington Star (circ. 370,000) last fall, can also acquire the parent company's six moneymaking radio and television stations as well. The FCC has a rule against perpetuating such local monopolies when ownership changes hands, but Allbritton has pleaded for a waiver, saying that he needs profits from the stations to keep the paper alive...
...test its cross-ownership rule, but the Star is, to put it mildly, a special case. For one thing, the paper is the capital's only alternative to the fat, influential and steadfastly liberal Washington Post (circ. 536,000). For another, the Star is in the middle of a remarkable transformation. Allbritton, 50, took over the paper last September with a $5 million payment to descendants of the Adams, Kauffmann and Noyes families that have owned it since 1867, plus a $5 million loan to the paper. He brought in James Bellows, 52, the highly regarded former editor...