Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quality press there is very little real news in most British newspapers. How did British popular dailies get so bad? Many a Fleet Streeter blames it all on the late great Lord Northcliffe, father of British popular journalism. But the source is broader. When Northcliffe started the popular Daily Mail in 1896, British newspapers were thoroughly stuffy, aimed at a tiny educated class. Northcliffe created the "penny press" for a mass audience that had grown literate as a byproduct of the Industrial Revolution...
...French army in Italy and the U.S. 9th Armored Division. On Mazzella, the French vigilantes centered their attacks. Shortly after he published an editorial trying to explain the political reasons for Moorish terrorism, a bomb was exploded on the balcony of his second-floor apartment. Next day his mail brought a warning from the French vigilantes: "That was just the beginning." Two months later, a friend on the police force burst into Mazzella's office, warned that he was to be killed that evening. Mazzella and his family managed to escape on a plane to Paris, one jump ahead...
LONDON DAILY MAIL...
...demands : 1) a promise that prison authorities will try to circumvent a state law providing special punishment for rioting or holding hostages, 2) transfer from "the hole," 3) establishment of an inmate council, 4) a survey of parole practices and an annual review of sentences. 5) a study of mail-delivery practices. Then the prisoners swaggered back to their cells...
...excessive. Confidential has applied for membership in the Audit Bureau of Circulations; if accepted, it will come in with a circulation of about 2,230,000, its average for the first six months of 1955. But its newsstand growth has been so fast (only 30,000 readers subscribe by mail) that Confidential expects to reach its circulation claim in next year's audit...