Word: play
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onto the ice fighting mad but was lugged back before he reached Reardon. Other angry fans pressed against the low chicken-wire fence, and Canadiens Right Wing Leo Gravelle got into the act. He swung his stick and flayed three of the nearest spectators. It was 20 minutes before play could be resumed...
When the Chicago Black Hawks had won, 4-1 (and ten stitches had been taken in the first citizen's head), Reardon and Gravelle were led off to the police station, booked and released under $200 bail. Next week when the Canadiens play in Chicago again, they will have a chance to tell the judge all about it. Charges: assault with deadly weapons...
...Page One of the morning edition, which competes with Bertie McCormick's Tribune (circ. 955,000), was the banner-and-big-pictures treatment of the standard tabloid. In its place, readers got smaller cuts and news stories. The new Sun-times team gave most of the Page One play to national and international news instead of local stories...
...evening editions, which compete chiefly with Hearst's Herald-American, young Field stuck to the old formula: readers got the tabloid mixture as before, with the big play on crime, sex and sensation...
Athlete's Foot. The second biggest paper, The People, is something like a light lady who has married and tried to settle down. It blends sensationalism with folksiness, makes a try at teaching readers how to cook, dance, cure athlete's foot, play the horses and read the stars.* But 58-year-old Editor Harry Ainsworth, who has raised The People's circulation from 300,000 to 4,958,000 in 24 years, also puts crime and sex stories in their place-generally on Page One. Last week The People's eager readers were being filled...