Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flagship of the 19-paper Scripps-Howard chain; and the banner-lining Journal-American, home paper of William R. Hearst Jr.'s 16-paper chain. The august Times, the sassy News, the Fair-Dealing Post have been making money, and so, reportedly, has Hearst's tabloid Mirror. But all their profit margins are down...
...Marilyn Monroe's divorce and the Sheppard trial) are now played with headlines and pictures on Page One. While trying to woo away readers who find the Times's heavy news diet indigestible, the Trib is also trying to skim off the upper readers of the tabloid News and Mirror. Three months ago, for the first time in its history, the Trib launched a prize contest, a $25,000 competition called Tangle Towns. It picked up 72,000 readers, jacking up the Trib's circulation to more than 400,000, an alltime high...
...yourself features to appeal to new homeowners. But the journalistic move to the suburbs is not easy. Distribution costs are high, and competition is tough from suburban papers that cover their area with a "hometown" thoroughness no New York paper can match, e.g., Long Island's tabloid Newsday (TIME, Sept. 13). Not long ago, Captain Joe's versatile daughter Alicia Patterson, boss of Newsday, told a New York publisher: "If you come out here, we'll knock hell...
...Journal's morning tabloid sister, the Mirror, was started in 1924 with the slogan: "90% entertainment, 10% news"; it still lives up to this. The biggest attraction is Columnist Walter Winchell, plus Drew Pearson and popular comic strips (Li'l Abner, Joe Palooka, Steve Canyon...
Alarm ricocheted through the Australian press. A tabloid weekly named Truth blamed Head's bored and disgusted state on Harry Hopman, the autocratic non-playing captain, coach and general supervisor of the Aussie Davis Cuppers. Said Truth, apostrophizing Hopman: "Wake up to yourself. We think it's because of you, Harry-because you won't let him [Hoad] off your apron strings. You make him think tennis, eat tennis, drink tennis and live for nothing else." Lew's mother, Mrs. Bonnie Hoad, who plays on the hard courts herself, chimed in: "Lew hasn...