Word: circe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business for himself, with a series of financial and political reporting services and publications. These evolved after World War II into U.S. News & World Report (current circ. 1,940,000). He kept the magazine conservative in politics, quiet in tone. Fads, fashions, the arts, sports -these were beside Lawrence's point. "No sir," he would say in vetoing a story. "This is a magazine of news significance, and this isn't significant news...
...voyeur strain to it. Its girlie magazines outflesh their American counterparts and many general publications have large appetites for nudity and gamy gossip. Hoping to collar part of the European audience, Hugh Hefner has introduced Italian and German editions of Playboy. The mid-November debut of the Italian Playboy (circ. 350,000) posed a direct threat to Playmen (circ. 400,000), a home-grown imitation that has surpassed its American model in spice, if not in style, and has won a profitable niche for itself (TIME, Jan. 18, 1971). While Rome took in Hefner's prepublication ballyhoo, Playmen Editor...
...circulation of 17.5 million had come out for Nixon's reelection, while only 38 with 1.4 million circulation had backed George McGovern. The trend was continuing last week, and Nixon is certain of a much bigger editorial edge than in 1968, when he was favored by 634 dailies (circ. 34.5 million) to 146 (circ. 9.5 million) for Hubert Humphrey...
...Arkansas Gazette and Louisville's Courier-Journal. Elsewhere, Nixon enjoys a solid majority of editorial votes in the Midwest and a virtual stranglehold on the West Coast. In New England, the sole prominent daily to declare for McGovern to date is the Pittsfield (Mass.) Berkshire Eagle (circ...
...they were foundering for lack of financing. Happily, the crisis was only temporary. Editor Roy Rowan announced last week that Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp. (Family Handyman, Natural Gardening) will take over the two magazines, pump more than $1,000,000 into circulation promotion, and revive On the Sound (circ. 50,000) in December, after a two-month recess. On the Shore (circ. 25,000) will resume publication later...