Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tabloid admirers of her marriage to Winthrop Rockefeller, nothing became Bobo Rockefeller like the leaving of it-with a settlement of $5,500,000 (TIME, Aug. 16). Since then reporters have watched her like the Hope Diamond, last week asked the inevitable question after she entertained 34-year-old Charles W. Mapes Jr., a Nevada hotelman, in her 15-room Park Avenue duplex. Bobo and Charles laughed good-naturedly and sort of denied everything before driving off together. Checking their files, the tabloids were comforted to find that Charles Mapes Jr. was not just a nobody; not only does...
...likely to cause embarrassment to the Government of their own country . . . This makes the conduct of Mr. Attlee and his colleagues the more amazing and reprehensible." The Economist called Attlee & Co. the "Chiltern Set," drawing a parallel with the famed pre-World War II appeasing "Cliveden Set." The tabloid Daily Sketch called the Laborites "The Yellow Travelers...
...with Anthony Eden and ran afoul of the Lord Chamberlain, who has power to grant or refuse theatrical licenses without explanation. Three days before the opening of an obscure new revue called Light Fantastic, the Lord Chamberlain ordered the offending song lyrics dropped. The net result: London's tabloid Daily Mirror, which needs no by-your-leave from the Lord Chamberlain or anyone else, printed the ditty...
...Worker last week, Platt shamefacedly confessed his sin. Wrote he: "I very carelessly lumped the tabloid weekly Jet with the others. Deplorable as it sounds, I never even looked through Jet until today. What happened was this: I was lunching at a newsstand and saw this title displayed together with others, and I jumped to the conclusion that they were all alike . . . Now that I have had a chance to look through Jet, I can see that it is quite different from the others." Then Platt confessed the worst...
Other papers also got into the act. Manhattan's tabloid Daily News called it "a five-spasm series," while such dailies as the Chattanooga Times hailed it for showing "up Senator McCarthy for the ruthless demagogue he is." Brooklyn's Roman Catholic Tablet expressed astonishment that Woltman, who has "earned widespread support as an anti-Communist writer," could abandon his "fairness, integrity and accuracy" and turn "hatchet man." The Pittsburgh Catholic, weekly newspaper of the Pittsburgh diocese, took an exactly opposite view, called the series a "study which the country needs and for which it has been waiting...