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Editorially Col. Knox has made the paper fresher, breezier, has gone after the newsstand buyer with pretty-girl pictures and sports news on front and back pages. Also, he has made it a loyal Administration organ...
...threatened to undersell My Story with a new one to be called Your Story. Later Publisher Delacorte upset a Macfadden scheme to publish Hullabaloo in imitation of Delacorte's Ballyhoo. Few months ago Delacorte pilfered Macfadden's idea for a burlesque tabloid newspaper, Laugh Parade, beat him to the newsstand with a Nutty News. When Macfadden announced last fortnight a forthcoming magazine entitled Babies: Just Babies, with Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt as editrix, no one would have been greatly surprised to hear Publisher Delacorte say that he would do something similar. Last week he said that very thing. On Sept...
...Manhattan, a taxi descending Brooklyn Bridge ramp sent a group of pedestrians helter-skelter, bounced off a trolley car, mounted three curbs, dragged a steel traffic cable & stanchions 10 ft., crushed through a newsstand, cracked a subway kiosk, stopped at the head of the subway stairs. Extricating himself uninjured from the wreckage, Chauffeur Jacob Selditch said : "I guess maybe them brakes ought to be tightened...
Three days later the first Sunday Times appeared. More than 410,000 copies of it were sold. In contrast to an early, burlier day, there was no newsstand violence...
Last week, on the eve of the debut of his Sunday Times, Publisher Thomason began to learn how the Tribune and "Herex" (both priced at 10?) propose to protect themselves against the 5? tabloid. Licensed newsstands in Chicago all are built with two display shelves. Copies of the Tribune are stacked in two piles on the upper shelf; the Herex on the lower. No newsstand owner would dare disturb that arrangement without permission of either paper. All too familiar with the bloody history of Chicago's oldtime circulation wars, Publisher Thomason induced the Commissioner of Public Works to call...