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...Plague of Yo-Yos. On June 24, 1924, the Mirror reached the Manhattan scene almost as abruptly as it was destined to fade. "Can you start a new tabloid in ten days?" asked Arthur Brisbane, who was William Randolph Hearst's chief editorial lieutenant. "Nine," replied Walter Howey, who was to be the Mirror's new editor. He was nearly as good as his word. From seed, the Mirror bloomed in two weeks. It was a frank imitation of Captain Joseph Patterson's five-year-old Daily News, the U.S.'s first successful tabloid. But hardly...
...Paper with a Heart." About all that kept the Mirror going was its proprietor's reluctance to part with any of his properties. "Pop held on to some real dogs," said William Randolph Hearst Jr. recently. The Mirror was one of those dogs, and although the Chief knew it, he did not seem to care. "Dear Arthur," he wrote in a now-famous memo to Arthur Brisbane, who was then the Mirror's publisher: "You are now getting out the worst newspaper...
...most worthless article, not even excepting the appeal for members by the Harvard Conservative Club, which publishes the sheet, is one entitled "Liberal Education and the Individual" by a Sharrel Keyes of Randolph Macon Woman's College. It is possible to determine that Miss Keyes rejects vocationalism, but otherwise it is a little hard to determine what sort of education she is talking about. She emphasized the importance of "spelling, mathematics, geography, and grammar," and then states the educated man "would find that mathematics and philosophy are not such strange bed-fellows and that Buddha's teachings can have meaning...
...York Mirror was not a good newspaper. When it folded last Wednesday, its 800,000-plus readers switched to the Daily News and hardly felt the loss. Even the man who founded the Mirror, William Randolph Hearst, once telegraphed its editor, "You are now getting out the worst newspaper in the United States...
...famed war correspondent (John Randolph) has been vilified in print by his old right-wing extremist friend (Larry Gates) as a Communist-line lackey and a "drunken, immoral, yellow-bellied degenerate." An ace trial lawyer (Van Heflin) fights through to victory after the customary initial aw-shucks-not-another-case gambit. Of course there is the loyal, jittery, correspondent's wife, who wants to throw in the towel marked HIS. Of course there is the bright young legal eaglet who breaks the case wide open by being able to read an incriminating scrap of paper upside down...