Word: gauvreau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distinction between Mirror and Graphic is hazy to the chance observer, it is bold as a banner headline to Editor Emile Henry Gauvreau of the Mirror.To him it is the difference between outmoded pornography and the beginning of a new "Tabloidia" in which he implicitly believes. He was the porno-Graphic's first managing editor. He stuck with it for five years until, sick of dishing up nothing but sex, scandal, crime, faked news & faked pictures to an illiterate circulation, he quit and went to the Mirror (TIME. July 22, 1929). There he could print at least some legitimate...
Obviously autobiographical is Hot News although the exploits recounted are a composite of all Tabloidia. Probably for fear of libel. Author Gauvreau has veiled his characters with flimsy disguises which re quire no seasoned newsmen to penetrate. Himself, as protagonist, he calls Jonathan Peters, his tabloid, The Comet...
...Familiar to most newsmen but perhaps difficult for laymen to believe is Editor Gauvreau's account of how sensational stories were deliberately cooked up and kept alive by artificial respiration in the dizzy scramble for circulation. Notable was the case of "Uncle Cocoa" Rodgers ("Daddy" Browning) and "Sugar Plum'' McGinnis ("Peaches" Heenan), whose queasy romance and parting were practically engineered in the Comet's editorial rooms. With the eager connivance of the exhibitionist Uncle Cocoa, the Comet's reporters wrote his and his wife's "own stories" of their honeymoon, contrived new bedroom stunts...
...circulation-no matter what its class- will force advertisers to buy space, the Comet and its competitors push on, trying to outdo each other in nauseous antics. And that weird battle robs Editor Peters of his bitterest competitor and closest friend-Editor Anthony Wayne of the Lantern. Here Author Gauvreau makes no attempt to obscure the figure of the late Editor Philip Payne of the Mirror, to whom the book is dedicated. Beaten at every turn by Comet (as Payne was frustrated in business and love), Wayne goes as a passenger on an attempted nonstop airplane flight to Moscow sponsored...