Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philadelphia's tabloid Daily News, once a shiftless tatterdemalion, has been gunning hard for circulation since Democratic Backer Matthew H. McCloskey Jr. took it over two years ago, infused it with money and ambition. Its chief rival: Publisher Walter Annenberg's Inquirer. Last week, in the climax of a month-long barrage, the News's guns pounded not only at the Inquirer's circulation, but at alleged payroll padding and loan-shark operations within the paper itself...
...emotions and endangered Holland's neutrality; in Scheveningen, The Netherlands. Bearded, mild-mannered Artist Raemaekers maintained his hatred of Germans through the years of uneasy peace, fled to the U.S. ahead of the Nazi invaders in 1940 to draw war cartoons briefly for New York City's tabloid PM. Half-German himself, Louis Raemaekers said in 1917: "It would be better ... if all the Germans could be wiped off the face of the earth...
Broken Date. The first paper to hear about the kidnaping apparently was the New York Times-at 7 p.m., four hours after Peter's abduction. Half an hour later the tip reached Manhattan's tabloid Daily News. Soon the wire services...
...withhold the story. But, said police, at about 8:30 p.m., the News had called to say it could not hold the story; by then a small early edition of the News was on the street with a brief bulletin on the case. Half an hour later the tabloid's big second edition bannered the kidnaping on Page One, ran a full account inside. MacDonald promptly called the other morning papers to release them from their pledges. The News, for what it was worth, had scored a clean beat...
...Jane Adler, 42, named in Gladys Robinson's complaint. As the brunette swiftly exited, Actor Robinson, 62, bounced up at stage center, reached for no shoulder-holstered gat, but rasped: "Do you think it's right to walk in on people like this?" Apologizing, Newshawk Wantuch, his tabloid fodder virtually in the hopper, edged back for the elevator amidst running dialogue with Robinson, whose 29-year marriage was never more on the rocks. Robinson: "Are you married?" Wantuch: "Yes." Robinson: "First' marriage?" Wantuch (uneasily): "Yes. Twenty years." Robinson (his lip curling with a quiver): "Keep it that...