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Competition arose to test this sense of purpose; in 1984 the "Daily News" was founded. After a bitter rivalry the newcomer folded in 1895 and loyal Crimeds from miles around flocked to the Sanctum to celebrate under the hastily-constructed banner, "No News is Good News...
...Star campaigned for street numbers on houses, modern jails, a closed sewage system and through railroads, and even bested the Pennsylvania Railroad in a fight to eliminate grade crossings. Once, in a burst of effervescence, after the Star fought to rout a "swindling" local government, the paper chanted in banner headlines : VICTORY! VICTORY!! VICTORY...
...York Daily News, which covers sexy, sensational stories with a flair that no other tabloid can match, last week broke a story that surprised even hardened News readers. Splashed across Page One was a banner headline: EX-G.I. BECOMES BLONDE BEAUTY. Said the story: "A Bronx youth, who served two years in the Army during the war and was honorably discharged, has been transformed by the wizardry of medical science into a beautiful woman." Under the banner were pictures of George W. Jorgensen, 26, the George who "is no more," and Christine, "the new woman" he became after "five...
After six years of having the state turn down all appeals, Mowery went again to the district attorney's office with the complete evidence. Last week, across the top of Page One in the World-Telegram and Sun, was a banner headline on Mowery's triumph: JUSTICE AFTER 12 LONG YEARS. HOFFNER LIFE TERM SET ASIDE. In setting aside the conviction, Judge Peter T. Farrell said: "Had the information [that we now have] been made known before, the course of justice might . . . have been completely different...
...There is no mention, for example, of the scholastic attainments of the Ford Scholars. Shall we call successful the Freshman who heels the Banner, Record, WYBC, or the News or spends all his weekends at Smith, Vassar or Connecticut College, and deny that honor to the student who grows in learning and wisdom, and prepares himself quietly to be a competent man in his generation. The News may so judge, and so, alas, may general student opinion at Yale. But you must not ascribe such as opinion to me, nor, I believe, to the Faculty and Administration at Yale...