Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...News editorials are written in breezy, colloquial style, as Joe Patterson would talk to a friend in the Bowery. The News is usually annoyed about something. Typical annoyances: traffic regulations, other newspapers ("WE'RE ANNOYED WITH THE NEW YORK TIMES"), the Japanese. Almost every Monday since 1934 the News has run an editorial on the theme of "Two Ships for One." When he feels like it Joe Patterson plugs some pet idea of his own. Most recent and most screwy idea: sex determination...
Highest Paid managing editor in the U. S. is the News's Harvey Deuell, who last year drew a salary of $140,000. The managing editor of the News has to com press into one-fourth as much space enough news to keep the paper competitive with the bulky Times and Herald Tribune. News stories, unlike conventional newspaper stories, start at the beginning, move with swift narrative pace to the end. Big, shaggy Harvey Deuell learned this trick while on the city desk of the News, where he used to rewrite nearly every important story. He had a scientist...
...played on Page Two, who decided his marriage to Mary King, editor of his woman's page, was worth only a Page Four position. Publisher Patterson's formula for success is to give the people what they want, but the reason it works so well on the News is that he knows the people's taste infinitely better than any other newspaper publisher. Since he got out of college he has studied in only one textbook: the People...
...Shirley's moppet public, its effect on Shirley is to make her act sick. The effect on stolid, 13-year-old Martin Good Rider is imperceptible. A Blackfoot Indian lad from Montana, he was picked for the role because he photographed well in the New York Daily News as a returning communicant from the New Orleans Eucharistic Congress last year. Martin is a veteran votary of tobacco. But off the set he refuses anything but Corona Coronas...
...American Civil Liberties Union, since March, has accumulated a resounding voice of 86 radio stations in 35 States for its 15-minute, free weekly scripts, Civil Liberties in the News, presented as "a commentary on the present-day struggle to preserve the Bill of Rights for all people throughout our country...