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...Tribune piled up more profits than ever in its highly prosperous career. Captain Patterson, taking a hint from Lord Northcliffe ("New York's simply begging for a picture newspaper"), decided that the bulldog needed a tail. He started the New York Daily News, gum-chewer's sheetlet, which began to wag at a great rate. In three years its circulation was 400,000. "When it reaches a million," said Mr. Patterson, "I shall go to New York for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bulldog's Tail | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

...endless flocks to the local production. The gorgeousness of the story has not been sufficiently reduced to a swiftly rising narrative. Through the opening reels, the characters are confused. Too many dukes and knights in armor and around the chess board are inclined to irritate your U. S. gum-chewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 2, 1925 | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

...HtiL1 gum-chewer/ sheetlets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jun. 9, 1924 | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

...stupidity of a "gum-chewer's sheetlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jan. 7, 1924 | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

Divorce. If you are a gum chewer, female, happily married to a drug clerk, this picture will reveal just what is going to happen when the family fortunes rise and your man suddenly accepts a position as general manager of the chemical factory. You will move up to a small edition of the Ritz in the Social Register section and he will promptly begin staying late at the club. You will catch him having lunch with a vapid vampire and soon he will request a divorce. Then you will go to your father who, fortunately enough, owns the chemical works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 2, 1923 | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

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