Word: generoso
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...store," says Malcolm Balfour, a South African by birth and former Enquirer editor who now works out of Lantana for the New York Post and Bild Zeitung, a West German daily. "The Enquirer meant plastic cards that would take you to the best hotels in the world." Enquirer Owner Generoso Pope Jr. was never satisfied with his staff and fired reporters often. Nonetheless, seduced by the sunshine, many of the dismissed staffers stayed on in the Lantana area, working as free-lancers for other tabloids or mass-circulation dailies abroad. Some found lucrative opportunities outside the tabs. Mike Irish launched...
...those by Robert Mitchum and Heiress Doris Duke, severely dampened Confidential magazine's penchant for unfounded gossip. Confidential's circulation plummeted from 4.1 million to about 300,000, and the magazine folded in 1969. The Enquirer boasts that the Burnett case is the first libel trial since Generoso Pope Jr. bought the tabloid in 1952. But that is because it occasionally settles out of court...