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After a brief scuffle, Kotowski said he handcuffed Angier and brought him to Somerville Ave. where Harvard Police Officer Curi Gauvreau had caught Evans...
...Gauvreau and Evans had apparently fought and Evans was "screaming and yelling and bleeding from the mouth," Kotowski said. The victim of the alleged robbery was then brought to Evans, who yelled, "I didn...
Hearst's Mirror hired the Graphic's freewheeling editor, Emile Gauvreau,* to implement the pledge of "90% entertainment and 10% news." Gauvreau accumulated circulation "by pushing into the back of my mind all that I had learned about the value of constructive news" and by studying the techniques of the News. The Mirror continued to reflect a rash of stunts calculated to hook the reader: Yo-Yo contests, picture puzzles, yards of crime coverage in an era when New York streets rang with the din of gang wars. By 1932, Mirror circulation passed 500,000. But the News...
Strange Race. Gauvreau also hit on a way to invent pictures that he called "composographs." He boosted circulation by 100,000 with a composograph showing Rudolph Valentino's arrival in heaven. The faked picture came most sensationally into its own when it illustrated the bedroom horseplay of eccentric Millionaire Edward ("Daddy") Browning and his young bride "Peaches," whose litigious romance was a Graphic bonanza. The couple was shown in composographs that sometimes contained balloon dialogue even for Daddy's pet goose...
...circulation mounted to 700,000, Gauvreau posted a bulletin-board communique: "The circulation ... is tearing the guts out of the presses. This has resulted from my policy of sensationalism. Any man who cannot be yellow has no place on the staff...