Word: tabloid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Patterson had left behind him a high-ranking team of admen, business managers and circulation wizards. But he took with him the unique editorial talents that had made his paper the most successful and the most disliked tabloid in the country. Keeping its diverse, perverse personality alive was now squarely up to Clarke...
...Manhattan's first "picture newspaper." He left for an eight-year stretch on the World, skipped back in 1930 before the World's end, stepped into his father's old job in 1939. Patterson turned him into a past master of the devious techniques of tabloid journalism...
...Huxley regaled British and American wits with a prophetic novel entitled Brave New World. In this caustic, chilly fantasy of a world-to-come (A.D. 2,500), babies were born in class-distinctive bottles, travel was in state-controlled helicopters, scientific absolutism was the universal rule. People swallowed a tabloid of happiness when they felt blue, worshiped a mechanistic god named "Our Ford," and believed that sexual fidelity was obscene. Faced with the alternatives of being Utopian or regressing into a squalid primitivism, the unhappy hero of Brave New World chose to hang himself...
Last to drop department-store advertising was the Daily News, which had stored huge reserves of paper and early in the strike had boasted that it was doing fine.*Hardest hit was the tabloid Mirror, which shrank to a skinny eight pages but clung stubbornly to Winchell, Pearson and two pages of comics, along with a nubbin of news. (And moved a nightclub comedian to crack: "I'm so weak I can't even lift a copy of today's Mirror V) Whistling shrilly to keep up its courage, the starveling Mirror ran a daily silver-lining...
...this happened back in 1939-when it was a tabloid sensation. Last week in Los Angeles Eileen Herrick Lowther sued George Lowther III for divorce...