Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gould's Dick Tracy, no U.S. comic strip has ever scored a solid hit in Britain. But when the lid was taken off newsprint last winter, the London Sunday Pictorial jumped to sign up Al Capp's Li'l Abner. Editor Harry Guy Bartholomew, whose knowing tabloid touch had built the London Daily Mirror (circ. 4,400,000) into the world's biggest daily, thought that his even bigger weekend Pictorial audience (4,800,000) would eat up Capp's super-edible Shmoos as hungrily as U.S. readers had done...
...York Post Home News (TIME, April 18), had been an editor without a mouthpiece. Last week a way was found to employ both editor and presses. With money furnished by a generous backer, Ted Thackrey bought the Star's equipment, prepared to launch a new 10? morning tabloid in New York City next week. Its name: the Compass...
Faced by these difficulties, reporters and editors were less inclined to give a last-minute story the old college try. Last week, Colonel Bertie McCormick's Tribune and Marshall Field's tabloid Sun-Times both settled for bulletins on a shake-up at Montgomery Ward's (see BUSINESS) that might have filled a column in the same edition in the old days. Said Sun-Times City Editor Karin Walsh: "If we don't hit it in one edition, we'll get it in the next." Even bulletins were made possible only by the Graphotype...
...Oklahoman didn't quite realize what it was letting itself in for. The wire services picked up the story, landed it in newspapers across the U.S. In New York, Hearst's tabloid Daily Mirror offered $200 in prizes for the best letters of advice to Mrs. H. In three days, 3,000 letters from every state and Canada flooded into the Oklahoman's city rooms; the telephones rang constantly with long-distance callers. Four out of ten letter-writers advised Mrs. H. to seek comfort in God; one letter suggested consolation in whisky. Hundreds urged...
...past year, radio's Tex McCrary has been looking at television with a speculative eye. An A.A.F. lieutenant colonel (he jumped with paratroops into France) and ex-newsman (chief editorial writer of the New York tabloid Mirror), McCrary was confident that he could survive TV's headaches. He was also shrewd enough to know that he had a TV asset in his pretty brunette wife Jinx Falkenburg, onetime model and cinemactress, who shares his over-the-breakfast-table radio show...