Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston Hearst papers, the Record, the American, the Sunday Advertiser (total circ. 1,748,437); in Boston. In Chicago, Howey became city editor of the Tribune at 25, editor of the Hearst Her aid-Examiner ten years later. Ignoring events outside Chicago, Editor Howey concentrated on local mayhem and scandal, paid police-switchboard operators to tip him off on the latest crime, delighted in planting fake stories in opposition newspapers. In Boston, a mellowed top Hearst executive, he took time off to develop an automatic photoengraving machine (1931), a "soundphoto" system of transmitting photographs by wire...
...game begins, a rich old fellow (Ronald Squire) arrives with a charming young girl (Peggy Cummins) at a grand hotel in Monte Carlo and calls for the bridal suite. That night, to the disgust of the other guests, he gets drunk, and the next morning, to their scandal, they discover that he has not only abandoned the poor young thing on her wedding night but has stolen her pocketbook, too. The maiden is not long in distress. The other guests, led by a kindly old dowager (Marie
More revelations and embarrassments were almost certain to come. But before it ended, the scandal might turn out to be a boon and a tonic for sorely beset Italy. As they went about their beats this week, the carabinièri were applauded in the streets by Italians who appreciated that they had walked where other police feared to tread. "I promise to do all in my power," vowed Premier Scelba, "to clear away this shady, suspicious atmosphere that is hanging over us." Nothing could better help democracy in Italy pass from sickness into health...
...Unità itself was jumping for joy. After winding up its 30th anniversary celebration, including circulation-building, mass meetings addressed by party brass and "medals of honor" for widows and children of devoted L'Unità workers, the paper got another circulation boost from the Wilma Montesi scandal (see FOREIGN NEWS). Beamed one of L'Unità's top executives: "L'Unità is absolutely the biggest Communist newspaper outside the People's Democracies...
Party Line-Up. As a result of its coverage, L'Unità attracts non-Communists along with Communist readers. Many a non-Communist buys the paper simply for its news and its full coverage of scandals, crime, sports and entertainment, and swallows a thick coating of propaganda with the news. For example, L'Unità's elaborate coverage of the Wilma Montesi scandal last week was angled to fit in with the party's battle against the government. "I don't like L'Unità's politics," said one monarchist reader...