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...York Daily News, had a sure instinct for the reading tastes of subway riders (he was one), and he built his tabloid into the biggest and most prosperous daily in the U.S. Some detractors say the News got there by peddling only the most marketable wares-crime, sex, sob stuff and baby pictures-with professional skill. But even the sober New York Times could take lessons from the News's equally professional ability to cut the "important but dull" story down to size. The News reader gets just about everything in the lively, abbreviated style suitable to someone being...
...Ekins' victory could not tarnish the luster of the also-ran. The Hearst papers sent a covey of reporters west to greet Dorothy, among them her father, James Kilgallen. Everybody wept. "Waiting, waiting," sobbed Hearst Sob Sister Elsie Robinson in print: "What's the big idea-I'm not supposed to cry, just because I'm a newspaper woman . . . So, as I was saying-there came the Clipper and there came Dorothy-who looks, as I've said plenty of times before, exactly like Minnie Mouse...
...grisly gimmick: she begs by posing as a Hiroshima maiden, although her scars are really from a childhood encounter with a fireplace. "My white corpuscles decrease daily-sometimes I swoon from anemia," she says with a pitiful passion. But she has to use sweet-potato moonshine, rather than a sob story, to pry loose Junpei's bankroll. Then she absconds, but only after he has fallen in love with...
...Lady of the Camellias. What prompted Franco Zeffirelli to "devise, design and direct" this revival of the dusty Dumas fils sob opera is a question the ancients would have put to Delphi. The question on opening night was whether the dry eyes outnumbered the open ones...
...Pasadena's pet cemetery, mourning "mothers" sob as tiny coffins are lowered, a fat man in a sports shirt crosses himself over a grave, and a French poodle comments succinctly on the scene by relieving himself on a headstone marked "Judy Baby-our darling girl...