Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mirror turned its front page right-side-up, dropped most of its color, shortened and sharpened its stories, and started screaming like a tabloid. Obedient to Publisher Pinkley's order to "local 'em to death," it began to play up circulation-catching sex, crime and crusading stories with a Los Angeles angle. The Mirror offered $100,000 in rewards to readers who helped solve 20 local murders, exposed a baby-adoption racket, and pursued Rita & Aly from continent to continent with the determined zest of a private eye on a fat expense account. But the tabloid...
When the Los Angeles Times launched its new afternoon tabloid, the Mirror, last October, it hit the newsstands with a dull thud. Readers were baffled by its sideways front page, annoyed by its murky newsprint and cloudy color pages, and bored by its stories. By Thanksgiving Day, circulation had slumped to 71,447-well below the 100,000 guarantee to advertisers. From his thriving morning Times, Owner Norman Chandler rushed over City Editor Hugh ("Bud") Lewis to give Mirror Publisher Virgil Pinkley some help...
...usual, not all the reviews were favorable. "The civil union of an Indian prince and his girl friend by a Communist functionary," sneered Los Angeles' Father Thomas J. McCarthy in his tabloid Tidings. Moaned A.P.'s Hal Boyle: "A strictly grade B script . . . how bad can times get?" The script was no worse than Rita's touted The Lady from Shanghai; like the film, it was expensive, pointless, and covered a lot of geography...
...decided that in the editor's chair the Post Home News needed a working newsman who was a liberal with a clear anti-Communist record. Crusading Jimmy Wechsler seemed to be just the man. A onetime Nation assistant editor, Wechsler was on the original staff of the late tabloid PM, later its national affairs editor and Washington chief. In 1946, in protest against the paper's editorial Redlining, he chucked his job and went over to the Post. A graduate of Columbia, an ex-G.I. and the father of two, Newsman Wechsler has written three books (including...
...resumed her maiden name recently (with the prefix Mrs.) "to avoid confusion" with Wa-laceite. Ted, now editor of the new Manhattan tabloid, Daily Compass...