Word: macfaddens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reads the New York Times there is little if anything to choose between Patterson s Daily News and Macfadden's Evening Graphic. To him both are tabloids and thereby tarred with the same brush of blatant sexationalism. The fact is that the News has definite pretensions to being a newspaper; the Graphic none. Somewhere between the two but perceptibly nearer the News, falls the Hearst-Kobler Daily Mirror...
...walks with a limp, the result of "shellshock" suffered as a youngster when practical jokers set off a Fourth of July cannon under his bed room window. He was schooled on the ultra-conservative Hartford Courant, of which he was managing editor when he went to work for Macfadden. The Mirror had less than 400,000 circulation when he joined it. It has now about 600,000. In September Editor Gauvreau will inaugu rate a Sunday edition to compete with the Sunday News...
...like the latter it boasts an exceptionally able women's editor?Mary Humphrey. (Herald Tribune has Mrs. William Brown Meloney.) Some of the Free Press' following may be accounted for by its Chicago Tribune comic features. This situation may be affected by the Tribune's recent acquisition of the Macfadden tabloid Detroit Daily (TIME, April...
Having sold their nickel weekly Liberty to Bernarr Macfadden, Publishers Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson last week negotiated the sale of the factory which made Liberty's cheap paper at Tonawanda, N. Y., to International Paper & Power Co. for $4,000,000. But the rumor that they would retire further from the publishing business, that they would sell their Chicago Tribune to William Wrigley Jr., Albert Davis Lasker et al. (TIME, April 13) had by last week lost most of its steam. First direct quotation of Publisher McCormick on the subject appeared in the form of a note...
...rumored that Cornelius Van- derbilt Jr., unsuccessful publisher of the Miami Tab, the Los Angeles News and the San Francisco Herald, had been offered the position of editor of Liberty magazine, recently purchased by Macfadden Publications, Inc. (TIME, April 13). But last week he took the job of vice president in Lyman, Irish & Co., Manhattan advertising agency...