Word: publishers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mirror the biggest daily in the world (circ. 4,432,700). Last week 40-year-old Mirror Editorial Director Hugh Cudlipp ("If you don't like the Mirror, you don't like the human race") told the erratic success story of the paper in a book, Publish and Be Damned!, as irreverent and racy as the Mirror itself. The book's aggressive theme: "The London press is too niminy piminy...
...while simultaneously cluck-clucking on their editorial pages. Hearst's New York tabloid, the Daily Mirror, which seldom passes up any story with a sex angle, explained to its readers that it ran this "supposedly . . . scientific effort [because] we felt we could not become overpious and fail to publish it." Scripps-Howard editors had local option on how to handle the story, e.g., the San Francisco News ran only an explanation of why it was leaving Kinsey out ("This is adult reading"), while Denver's Rocky Mountain News cut out the data on teenage petting. Other editors...
...gain access to Kinsey's study, some 160 newspaper and magazine writers had signed contracts binding themselves to such restrictions as: 1) not to publish stories until release date, 2) limit them to 5,000 words, 3) submit advance copies to Kinsey for his approval on their accuracy...
...train that crosses over from Lo Wu, last stop in Red China, disgorged harried, sweating John William ("Bill") Powell, his wife and two children. Powell, 34. editor of Shanghai's China Monthly Review until it folded last month "because we went broke," was the last U.S. journalist to publish in Red China...
Last week Chateaubriand's time came. Under the nationalistic constitution of Brazil, only native-born Brazilians can own, publish or edit newspapers. A telephone tip to another anti-Wainer editor, Tribuna da Imprensa's crusading Carlos Lacerda, had advised him to look into Wainer's nationality. Acting together, Lacerda and Chateaubriand assigned eleven reporters and five lawyers to sleuth out the facts, then blared them in Page One headlines and on radio and TV. The tipster was right: Wainer's mother had arrived from Bessarabia (now Soviet Russia) in 1915-three years after Sammy was born...