Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...masthead of Publisher Marshall Field's Chicago Sun-Times (circ. 630,000) appeared a new name last week: "Marshall Field Jr., assistant publisher and associate editor." After a 3½-year apprenticeship, young (33) "Marsh" Field had taken over the dominant editorial role in the round-the-clock tabloid that some day he will...
Morning Menu. Gone from Page One of the morning edition, which competes with Bertie McCormick's Tribune (circ. 955,000), was the banner-and-big-pictures treatment of the standard tabloid. In its place, readers got smaller cuts and news stories. The new Sun-times team gave most of the Page One play to national and international news instead of local stories...
...Scott Fitzgerald in his unfinished elegy to the independent film artist, The Last Tycoon; Budd Schulberg in his acid-etched portrait of a ratty producer, What Makes Sammy Run? But most novelists who write about Hollywood become infected with the faults they set out to pillory: garish sentimentality and tabloid vulgarity...
...Corn" would like to be a bit of tragedy. A young man, frustrated in his sole ambition of becoming a concert pianist, takes his life. Here one of Mr. Maugham's vices creeps in. Lack of depth of emotion allows this piece to deteriorate to the level of a tabloid suicide at the end, though the whole thing is done with rich piano accompaniment, to be sure...
White Heat (Warner) is in the hurtling tabloid tradition of the gangster movies of the '30s, but its matter-of-fact violence is a new, postwar style. Brilliantly directed by Raoul (Roaring Twenties) Walsh, an old master of cinema hoodlumism, it returns a more subtle James Cagney to the kind of thug role that made him famous...