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...flashy news columns. They knew that if money could sharpen this competition, Macfadden had millions. They knew that he "expected to make a few million dollars for myself and associates" and would therefore force the fray. They realized that if The Graphic turned out successful, many another such sheetlet would sprout forth in the land, being cheaper to produce than any gum-chewers' delight ever evolved...
Meanwhile, the Nichi-Nichi, chief vernacular sheetlet of the Eastern Capital, "enthused" over the appointment of Mr. Bancroft...
Gertrude, Lady Decies, is the name of that journalist wife of the fourth Baron. Last week, she said in the Daily Mirror, Manhattan gum-chewers sheetlet: "From a friend actually at Court, I learn that the former Emperor of Germany has been making personal overtures to resume friendly relations with King George and Queen Mary. He has personally written to King George, but no return gesture is likely to be forthcoming. The ex-Kaiser has recently bought all the available pictures of the Prince of Wales, in whose doings he affects a genuine interest...
...there was more than admiration between the scrupulous credit lines. There was caution as well, lest the great "beat" were not true. Indeed the more sophisticated of Manhattan's dailies- The News (gum-chewers' sheetlet) and the great New York World, either through intuition or spectacular scepticism, maintained the attitude from the first that the cafe ship was a dream ship...
Here, of course, is latitude. The case of Gaston B. Means and the Daily News (Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet) is in point (TIME, Mar. 24). Had Mr. Means, testifying before the Senate "Oil Scandal" probers, refused to pose for the News photographer, had he hidden his face as many do, the News editors could have performed what they "believed to be a genuine service" by captioning: ''Means cowers." As it was, he fronted the lens foursquare. They captioned: "Means scornfully facing camera...