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...Miracle. Last year penicillin patients were still rare enough to be frontpage news. First such case was two-year-old Patricia Malone (see cut) of Jackson Heights, Queens. The New York Journal-American, which begged enough penicillin from Dr. Keefer to save her life from staphylococcic septicemia, last week won the Pulitzer Prize for the story. After that, the whole nation watched one "hopeless" case after another get well...
...Pacific war theater rated 3 in., the Major Horace E. Dodge divorce case, 21. The Battle of Italy was less than half as news-valuable as the Chaplin trial (24 in. to 51½). More striking still was the "news" ratio in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal-American. On the same day it gave Russia 18 in.; Italy, 5½; Chaplin, 40½; Lonergan...
William Randolph Hearst's noisy New York Journal-American last week quietly admitted that the quiet Philadelphia Bulletin is now the No. 1 U.S. afternoon newspaper. For years the Journal-American has carried a 9-point-bold line in its Page One index: "Largest circulation of any evening newspaper in America." Last week the "in America" read "in New York City...
...stuck to its homework: "In Philadelphia Nearly Everybody Reads the Bulletin." But proudly, under its Old English masthead, the 96-year-old Bulletin recorded: "February circulation 657,440 copies daily." Hearstmen would give no figure beyond that of the last available Audit Bureau of Circulation. It showed the Journal-American with a quarter-year average (July...
Martha Stevenson Kemp Mature, blond ex-wife of Swingster Hal Kemp and Victor ("Beautiful Hunk") Mature, arrived in Manhattan from Palm Beach with a bump on her head. According to the New York Journal-American's society page, she had been jarred awake in her sleeping car, sat upright, "rapped her lovely sconce" on the upper berth...