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DUMBBELLS AND CARROT STRIPS (405 pp.)-Mary Macfadden & Emile Gauvreau-Holt...
...When Graphic Editor Emile Gauvreau lamented that the judge had barred photographers from the sensational Kip Rhinelander annulment case (1925), an artist made a "composograph" -a combination of several photographs-to "show" the courtroom scene with Mrs. Rhinelander stripped to the waist. The Graphic's circulation jumped 100,000 copies...
Early in his tabloid career (at Hearst's Mirror), Charnay once bawled out wizened Editor Emile Gauvreau for printing off-the-record information that Charnay had promised not to use. The boss rang for a guard and Charnay, still protesting, was hauled away. But in losing his job, he won a reputation on the main stem as a man who could keep a secret. Charnay once posed as a murderer's attorney to get an interview in a cell at the Tombs, hid in a French actress' stateroom closet to get an exclusive story on her "life...
...Conceiving a phobia against Mickey Mouse, Brisbane wanted it thrown out, said it was humorless, a waste of space. When Gauvreau balked, Brisbane roared: "Children can be better occupied reading Sir James Jeans about the world we live in. Throw that rat out!" Too old for Mirror journalism, Brisbane one day received a wire from San Simeon: "Dear Arthur, you are now getting out the worst news paper in the United States...
...commentary on his career Gauvreau bemoans his lack of opportunity to "indulge my tastes for good literature," the necessity to get circulation "by pushing into the back of my mind all that I had learned about the value of constructive news." But before Hearst fired him for writing a book in praise of Russia, he had salted away a tabloidian nest...