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...peaks. Feeling confident, she strolled to a nearby ski shop to buy a parka and ski pants, more appropriate to the surroundings than the olive two-piece suit that she wore. It was her undoing. The store owner recognized her and phoned the news to the sensationalist Zurich tabloid Blick, which offers money for all such tips...
...months later, on Jan. 15, 1959, Jenkins was arrested for loitering in the same Y.M.C.A. washroom where he was nabbed two weeks ago. At first he was booked on an open charge, photographed and fingerprinted. Inspector Roy E. Blick, then head of the morals division, quizzed Jenkins for 31 hours, finally learned he was a top aide to Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. He allowed Jenkins to list his occupation as "unemployed," apparently because he had previously run into trouble in cases involving important people. Blick, now retired, said last week that he had been "leary of talking to the Hill...
...Blick was the only Swiss newspaper to carry a picture of a wife killer from the town of Langenthal. When the man, gratified by this unaccustomed publicity, turned himself in to Blick, the paper printed his story-to the stern disapproval of the rest of the press. Moved by impulses totally alien to the competition, Blick last winter invited 40 needy children from West Berlin to ski in Valais-and picked up the tab. It asked readers for money to buy beds for aged and improvident Swiss. When readers responded generously, other papers blew their Pfiffe. It was not seemly...
Getting the Message. Whether Blick has the proper approach to newspapering in Switzerland is something for the Swiss themselves to decide. Certainly Blick still has the government against it; the authorities canceled the lucrative contract under which Blick's publishers had printed a portion of the national telephone book for 17 years...
Still, readers keep piling up. Each day they buy 140,000 copies of Blick, a quantity that puts it within close reach of Tagesanzeiger (160,000), the country's largest daily. And for all their opposition, some papers are getting the message. Already, Basel's National-Zeitung has copied Blick's combination of big heads and big pictures. Said Jean Chevalier, assistant editor of the French-language Journal de Genéve: "If the Swiss-German press were not so dry and stodgy, Blick would never have come into existence...