Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week distaff-conscious Odhams Press Ltd., which publishes Woman and Everywoman. added a new magazine called Woman's Realm to its harem. The first issue sold out its press run of more than 1,000,000 copies within a few hours...
When the Colorado Springs Free Press (circ. 14,743) announced last week, that it was dropping its Sunday edition and boosting its weekday price (to 7?), the paper said in a Page One sales talk: "The first responsibility of a publisher is the same as that of any other businessman-to operate fairly and for motives of profit." But in fact, the Free Press, which has lost an estimated $1,700,000 in eleven years, is one of the fortunate few U.S. dailies that have not had to show a profit...
...Free Press was founded in 1947 after I.T.U. printers lost a contract battle with Colorado Springs' evening Gazette Telegraph (25,417), owned by hidebound Raymond Cyrus Hoiles (TIME, July 15), whose radically right-wing views fall just short of anarchy. Since last October Editor-Publisher Edward J. Byrne has fired 42 of 117 staffers (including five printers), Byrne warned last week that the paper is still in the red, will be folded if it is not in the black...
...Press association teleprinters chattered last week with seemingly momentous news from Boston: "Discovery of a mold extract which seeks and destroys fresh blood clots in minutes ... can be used safely on the sickest patient . . . credited with furnishing quick relief for sufferers of heart attacks." Editors front-paged the claims, which had been announced by the Massachusetts Heart Association...
Playwright Tennessee Williams, 43, whose work surges with all manner of violence, from rape (A Streetcar Named Desire) to homosexualism and cannibalism (Garden District), last week took Associated Press Columnist Hal Boyle on a tour of the Williams psyche, on which a psychoanalyst is at work five times a week at $50 an hour. Observed Playwright Williams: "I find it immensely stimulating...