Word: circe
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...After eight days of testimony and three of deliberation, the jurors had provided a classic Tinseltown ending to a televised trial that was followed as avidly as a soap opera. They awarded Burnett a whopping $1.6 million in damages in her libel suit against the sensation-seeking National Enquirer (circ. 5,100,000). Said the relieved star: "There...
...case has a Hollywood courtroom drama attracted such attention. As an expectant crowd lined the corridors at Los Angeles County superior court last week, Actress-Comedian Carol Burnett arrived for the first day of proceedings in her $10 million libel suit against the sensationalist weekly tabloid the National Enquirer (circ. 5.1 million). Said a determined-looking Burnett: "I'm very happy to be here. It's like a five-year-old toothache and I'm finally at the dentist...
...celebrity muck. A fact-checking department was developed in its Lantana, Fla., headquarters, and all gossip items had to be backed up by two independent sources-who were often paid by the Enquirer. But faced with flagging sales and increased competition from Rupert Murdoch's racy rising Star (circ. 3.5 million), Pope soon ordered up more pizazz. The outcome of the Burnett case and other suits may well determine whether he ordered up too much...
...Evans won high marks for his 14-year stewardship of the Sunday paper,* which he enlivened with eye-catching layouts and hard-hitting investigative stories (the thalidomide scandal in 1972 and 1977, a series on brutal prison conditions in Ulster in 1972). Unlike its daily counterpart, the Sunday Times (circ. 1.4 million) was usually in the black...
...alone. Much of that red ink was caused by the Times Newspapers print unions, which are notorious for featherbedding and work disruptions; their unruly behavior and opposition to laborsaving new technology finally drove out the last owner, the Toronto-based Thomson Organization. Murdoch, who also owns the London Sun (circ. 3.7 million), News of the World (circ. 4.2 million) and New York Post (circ. 640,000), picked up the five Times publications at the bargain-basement price of $27.6 million (less than the current value of the plant and equipment alone). New union agreements were a condition of the sale...