Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wording of the billboards is familiar: "Famous, flashy and crashing kid possesses a resolute punch." When a jukebox with colored lights and boogie-woogie records arrives in Luang Nakon's brothel and the girls take to nylon blouses imprinted with headlines from a New York tabloid (GIN-CRAZED, SLAYS THREE), it becomes clear that a lot has happened since Anna met the King of Siam...
Died. Jacquin Leonard (Jack) Lait, 71, oldtime Chicago newspaperman, since 1936 editor of Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror (circ. 913,691 daily, 1,664,703 Sunday); after long illness; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Editor Lait doubled the Mirror's circulation, with Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer turned out four controversial "Confidential" guides to U.S. scandal and vice. Asked how he kept up his prodigious writing output (8 plays, 20 books, 1,500 short stories), Author Lait rasped: "Fiction is a cinch. I just set the screw in my head for 2,800 words, and out it comes...
Feature Bait. McCraken built his statewide empire on an ingenious newspaper stunt. Twenty-eight years ago, he borrowed $3,000 and bought Cheyenne's sickly weekly, the Wyoming Eagle. He converted it into a daily, made it the area's first tabloid and began giving it away free. But later only paid subscribers got a special section of features (comics, serial fiction, etc.). By starting new features first in the free section of the paper, then moving them to the supplement for paid subscribers, he got more and more paid subscribers, finally stopped giving the paper away altogether...
...expected to level off at about 300,000, making it the biggest daily in the city. The Post also began to put out afternoon editions as the Times-Herald had, thus invading a territory held by the rich, successful Evening Star (circ. 234,660) and Scripps-Howard's tabloid News (138,778). Of the Times-Herald's 1,138 employees, more than 500 have been temporarily hired by the Post...
...tabloid New York Daily News, biggest paper in the U.S., was in a congratulatory mood last week. But in its usual breezy manner the News added a new twist; it was mysteriously congratulating itself. Said a News editorial: "The News congratulates numerous other newspapers, in New York and elsewhere . . . on the shrewdness and sense of their editors and owners in trying to copy so many features, practices and styles which were originated by the News . . . We cannot congratulate the people who buy these other papers. We can only commiserate with them, and hope for their sakes that their eyes...