Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's most successful tattler, McKelway does more than tattle. His aching concern is the "Legacy of an Ex-Hoofer"-the effect of Winchellism on the standards of the press. When Winchell began gossiping in 1924 for the late scatological tabloid Evening Graphic, no U. S. paper hawked rumors about the marital relations of public figures until they turned up in divorce courts. For 16 years gossip columny spread until even the staid New York Times whispered that it heard from friends of a son of the President that he was going to be divorced. "The Graphic...
...moved to Chicago in 1855 and bought the Chicago Tribune, he founded a news dynasty which today controls three of the most potent papers in the U. S. One of his grandsons, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, now runs the Tribune. Another grandson, Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, owns the pioneer tabloid New York Daily News. Granddaughter Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson publishes the Washington Times-Herald. Their aggregate circulation is close...
...Ambassador to Cuba Harry Frank Guggenheim, Alicia has like him been a flying enthusiast, been married thrice. (Husband I was the late James Simpson Jr., son of Marshall Field & Co.'s onetime chairman; Husband II was Broker Joseph W. Brooks.) Her newly founded paper: an evening tabloid, Newsday, a "country newspaper" for rich, suburban Nassau County...
Unlike most other juvenile journals, Young America, published by a slick-haired, rich young man named Stuart Scheftel, is sold only to boys and girls in junior-high and elementary schools, at 25? for a term of 18 weeks. It looks like a dignified, grownup, twelve-page tabloid newspaper, with plenty of pictures, cartoons, maps, charts...
Last week, in Manhattan's tabloid Sunday News, Sports Editor Jimmy Powers offered his 3,400,000 readers a bloodcurdling sensation as a possible explanation for the surprising collapse of the New York Yankees...