Word: sunday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Progresso is but one of five Italian newspapers in New York City. Its most potent rival is Corriere d'America (circulation 53,401; 76,000 Sunday), which has been called the finest tabloid-sized newspaper...
William Randolph Hearst of the Journal lured Outcault and his Yellow Kid away from the World along with most of the World's Sunday staff. The World countered with another Yellow Kid series. Serious-minded people pointed to the Yellow Kids as horrible examples, cried out against the "yellow journalism" of both Hearst and Pulitzer.* But Outcault was enjoying himself and his Yellow Kid was shouting: "I wish dat dese lovely wimmin wud leave me alone." He was supposed to have founded these comics on a group of street imps who were burlesquing the Duke of Marlborough...
Editors headlined Dr. Cadman as world's first "radio pastor." For the most part, this was religio-journalistic enthusiasm. As many a radiowner knows, Dr. Cadman preached from the Bedford (Brooklyn) branch of the Y. M. C. A. Sunday afternoons, last year, over an 18-station web. And his new and exciting title of "radio pastor" further lost significance when it became known that Rabbi Wise also would preach, that Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick & Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, able Manhattan divines, might soon be given microphonal pulpits by the National Broadcasting Co., sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches...
Facts, melted down, consisted of this information: the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America supposedly aided by members of the three main religious groups, is collaborating with the National Broadcasting Company to hold every Sunday afternoon a 90-minute religious program on a hookup of 40 or more stations...
...Willys, automobileman, has an estate near Oyster Bay, Long Island. On the estate is a private beach. On the beach was found floating last week the body of a dead man. On the man was only underwear. His clothes, discovered later on the Willys beach, contained the following memo: "Sunday-Took a trip to Oyster Bay. The afternoon is sunny and cheerful. Sorry I did not bring my bathing suit, as I find quite a few bathing and enjoying it." The ill-fated intruder on Mr. Willys' private beach was identified as R. A. Richard, Manhattan salesman...