Word: newsstande
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME'S total overseas circulation, more than 125,000 newsstand copies of the Latin American, Pacific and Atlantic editions are now sold by approximately 100 local distributors, three times as many as there were at the end of World War II. Recently, I heard from two of TIME'S postwar distributors, describing their experiences in getting started in business after several years of enemy occupation. Wrote K. C. Chain, TIME-LIFE distributor on the island of Formosa...
Dirty Corners. Despite the four weeks of testimony, neither the committee nor witnesses were always sure of the difference between obscenity and respectable writing. Writer Margaret Culkin Banning decried "filth on the newsstand," said that more than 1,000 magazines published in the U.S. are nothing more than "pictorial prostitution." Three days later the committee discovered that Writer Banning herself was the author of an article titled "Is Virginity Old-Fashioned?" (her answer: no), which appeared in Personal Romance flanked by such other titles as "Kidnaper's Kisses," "I Was Accused of Adultery" and "Betrayed...
...copies of TIME under their arms, because about two out of five readers reported that they pass their copies on to relatives or friends. Another 13% give their used copies to libraries, clubs and hospitals. And three readers wrote us that they turn in their used copies at the newsstand...
...long advance planning was getting TIME out this week in most remote places, such as the newsstand at Ben's Provision Store at Stephenville, Newfoundland (pop. 6,083), which was scheduled to receive its usual 20 copies via Trans-Canada Air Lines at 9:10 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 7. In the town of Stephenville, Ben reports, and among the U.S. troops stationed at the nearby Ernest Harmon Air Force Base (many of whose personnel are. subscribers to TIME and whose post exchange gets another 100 copies), the U.S. election has been the biggest topic of conversation for weeks...
...remove the thorn, the Soviet government methodically harassed Amerika, censoring articles and cutting its circulation-in violation of an agreement with the U.S. to distribute 50,000 copies (TIME, June 23). Even so, Amerika proved so popular that a lively black market flourished, with copies selling for twice present newsstand price of five rubles (about...