Word: heraldmau
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...well-made-up front page, sound news coverage and conscious inaccuracy were often neighbors. Says sports columnist Al Laney, a Heraldmau for ten years "We used to fake stories all the time. Often we used to make up the front page at 8 p.m. [it was a morning paper], before we knew what the news would be. Then we would just find stories to fit." Touring Americans, flattered to find their names in the society columns, often bought 50 or more copies to send to the folks back home...
| 1 |