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Panorama says, in its masthead, that it is "founded on a belief in the United States of America, its flag and its institutions." But, also, Panorama admits a desire to emulate The Illustrated London News and similar European publications. It was difficult to discover what class of scatter-brained women Panorama was intended primarily to interest. The first issue contained an able and informative article on Arthur Brisbane by John K. Winkler (biographer of Hearst). On the next page was a remarkable photograph of a giant tortoise. Fannie Brice told her "own story" and some Indians were observed worshipping...
This and more is the masthead of the Overland Mail, daily tabloid, born last fortnight on the Gold Coast Limited of the Union Pacific Railroad, somewhere between Chicago and the Pacific Ocean. The idea: to entertain patrons of the train, to tell them yarns about the scenery and the towns through which they pass...
...great-great-grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, a gangling 26-year-old youth in 1924, set out to pander to the public by founding three tabloid newspapers, against the wishes of his family. He used on his masthead the phrase: "The public be served." Within two years, his tabloids (in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami) went bankrupt (TIME, May 10, 1926, et seq.]. Vanderbilt IV then functioned as special writer for the Hearst New York Mirror, appealed to the masses with sneering remarks about his family's plutocratic mansion on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan...
President Calvin Coolidge figured in the laughs. His name was signed to a letter saying The Nation was a "darb"; his picture was substituted for Benjamin Franklin's in the masthead of the Saturday Evening Post, which was published "in association with the United States mint and N. W. Ayer...
Sailors, arm-in-arm, lined the decks and guns of the Renown. Shrill boatswains' whistles piped as the ducal party stepped aboard. Then the standard of the Duke of York broke out at the masthead. Thunderous, a salute roared from the battleships Iron Duke, Marlborough, Benbow and Emperor of India. Humorously pat, the Renown's band blared: "The Girl I Left Behind...