Word: scandalsheet
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...weekend nights, when out-of-towners come to the Square." Phil's Tows claimed not to know who authorized the job and overcharged me too, according to documents on file with the Department of Public Utilities, but that's another story. While there I gazed sadly on the spectacular scandalsheet: The towing log. Within two hours there had been three extortions committed by John Harvard and his accomplice at 67 Winthrop Street, and 90 percent of Phil's pickups occurred on that very road. At fifty bucks per whack, some one or ones are getting rich mighty quick...
...ending, its turning point stands out. In 1922 Hearst was at his zenith as a publisher. He owned 20 newspapers in 13 of the largest U. S. cities, with Universal Service and INS to flash them worldwide news, King Features Syndicate to dish out comics and boilerplate philosophy, the scandalsheet American Weekly to boost Sunday circulation into the multimillions. He had a string of magazines, a newsreel, a motion-picture company. He had the world's highest paid stable of writers and editors. And he made more money than any other publisher before or since...
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