Word: readership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best, he makes his poetry toe the line of his creed: "Man be my metaphor." In the 22 years since his first poem was published, Dylan Thomas has added mystic affirmation to his lyric rage. Almost as impressive as his growing to maturity is his growing acceptance and readership. Since Collected Poems was published in Britain late last year, it has sold close to 10,000 copies-a remarkable figure for a modern poet...
...idea of a newspaper unfettered by edicts from above or the shifting tastes of its readership is old and praiseworthy, and apart from abstract theories of liberty, this freedom is healthy in terms of interest, truthfulness, and mental stimulation alone. For those on the typewriter end, moreover, its worth--the maturity gained from unhampered grappling with journalism's problems--is equally clear. All this seems so obvious that undergraduate journalists who do not strive to practice this ideal are neither giving nor receiving what a newspaper should offer...
...sales: 6,074,135), a kind of poolroom Marquis de Sade. It was plain to the worried hardcover men that the two-bit upstarts had tapped a new market of readers. The paperbacks were even publishing originals and luring away writers with promises of better royalties and wider readership. But the paperbacks were headed for trouble: in Washington, a congressional committee was lambasting the sexy covers-frequently on reprints of eminently respectable works, e.g., a nude model on a Van Gogh biography-which had become eyesores in the nation's drugstores...
Split Up. In 1937, the brothers split their holdings: Camrose took the magazines and the Telegraph, Kemsley held on to all the other 31 newspapers. Kemsley's dailies, with a circulation of 3.300,000, still account for almost half Britain's total provincial readership, while his Sunday Times, famed for its cultural sections, and his Daily Graphic, appealing to vulgar or common-man tastes, give him a circulation of 1,300,000 in London...
...percentage reading TIME was about two out of five in each group, enough to score first in readership among radio executives and editors and publishers of newspapers, and second among the corporate executives and engineers. (A similar survey was completed this spring by the research department of Boston University's Division of Journalism among 204 publishers, 279 managing editors and 212 city editors of U.S. newspapers. All three groups voted TIME their favorite magazine...