Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Editor in Chief Blair's efforts to jack up Curtis magazines have met with little success. On four of them-the Ladies' Home Journal, Holiday, American Home and Jack & Jill-a revolving-door policy for editors has had little more effect than to unsettle the incumbents. The Journal, for example, which in 1961 lost its crown to McCall's as the leading woman's magazine, has yet to recover...
...crucial Midwest, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Democratic since Alf Landon) predictably chose L.B.J.; the Toledo Times broke a 116-year-old tradition and followed suit, while the Cincinnati Enquirer opted for Barry, and the Wisconsin State Journal decided, "We cannot honestly recommend either candidate to-the voters." Not surprisingly, one of the nation's largest Negro newspapers, the Pittsburgh Courier, editorialized for Johnson. Also in the L.B.J. column were the Louisville Courier-Journal, and New Hampshire's Concord Daily Monitor. LIFE Magazine, which said of L.B.J. last week: "We think he deserves his own full term...
Break with Tradition. Sometimes soberly, sometimes shrilly, a number of church journals this year have broken with longstanding traditions of noncommitment. The nondenominational Christian Century, perhaps the most influential of Protestant weeklies (circ. 38,000), has not only come out for Lyndon Johnson, the first presidential candidate it has endorsed since Wendell Willkie; it has also published an anti-Goldwater editorial in almost every issue since the G.O.P. Convention last July, attacking Barry for "stridency and military recklessness," "obsessive nationalism," and "promoting racist exploitation." Christianity and Crisis, a small (12,000) but prestigious journal of Protestant opinion, broke...
Similar objections were voiced by the lay-edited Catholic monthly Ramparts, the Episcopal journals the Witness and the Churchman, and the biweekly United Church Herald - although Dr. Ben Herbster, president of the United Church of Christ, later maintained that the magazine was not speaking for the denomination. Many other church journals seem to have lined up against Goldwater by implication. The Methodist student magazine Motive reprinted the entire Christianity and Crisis special issue dissecting Goldwater, while the Covenant Companion of the Evangelical Covenant Church published a story on the Century's stand; neither journal added comment or rebuttal...
Desperate to reduce book thefts, the nation's 60,000 libraries have tried everything from shelving their books behind iron fences to putting in ceiling mirrors to spot browsers stuffing books into clothing or briefcases. Nothing seems to work: the Library Journal estimated not long ago that thieves take anywhere from 200 to 500 books a year from the average library, and library officials glumly admit that book thefts now cost them an estimated total of $25 million a year...