Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City's tabloid Daily News continued to argue that Manhattan, definitely out of the running, was ideal because it could make any delegate feel at home-the Chinese would be happy living in Chinatown, the French in Greenwich Village, the British at the Waldorf. "If [the delegates] . . . were cooped up in some sort of compound at Hyde Park, it would be like a lot of laundresses taking in one another's washing...
...York's Senator Robert Wagner accused the British Government of conducting an "insidious, worldwide" campaign against the Jews. Manhattan's professionally crusading tabloid PM gave the matter 22 columns in five days. Other boldface papers and emotional radio voices helped to swell the wolfpack...
...years ago the Courier defeated a Lincoln mayor when he disagreed with it on parking meters. Now it is thumping away at an airport for feeder lines, a war memorial. It still puts out a lively, fortnightly tabloid, with pinups, for local boys overseas. Executive Editor Ken Goodrich prods news out of 19 rural correspondents, runs locally-written guest editorials. His five full-time staffers write on copy paper of different colors, so that he can tell at a glance who wrote what...
Last week Peaches was in the news again, getting a divorce from No. 3. But times and the tabs had changed. In Hearst's tabloid New York Daily Mirror the story landed at the bottom of Page 14. On the front page: BIG 3 AGREE ON ATOM CONTROL...
Ellsworth ("Sonny Boy") Wisecarver, who started making tabloid headlines at 14 when he ran away from home with an unmarried mother of two (TIME, May 15, 1944), did it again at 16-this time with Mrs. Eleanor Deveny, wife of a Japan-based G.I. After the pair were arrested in Oroville, Calif., Mrs. Deveny said: "I would like to take care of Sonny the rest of my life, and not on a motherly basis." Los Angeles Juvenile Judge A. A. Scott was impressed-"If Ellsworth gets into any more of these jams, he will be the most sought-after...