Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's pinko Daily Compass finally folded. Deep in debt, the three-year-old tabloid, lineal descendant of the pinko PM, reached a peak circulation of 54,000 after the start of the Korean war, then slumped to 30,000. The Compass, originally backed by International Harvester heiress Mrs. Emmons Elaine, 86 (TIME. May 16, 1950), was in the red more often than the black. This week the paper's mortgagors and creditors closed in and sold the Compass' fixtures and machinery at auction. Said Editor Ted Thackrey: "We ran out of money. We're through...
...reporter for Long Island's tabloid Newsday (circ. 175,000), young (25), law-abiding Don Kellerman made a proposal that surprised his wife as much as it did his managing editor. Kellerman wanted to get arrested so that he could write a series on "what happens to a youngster in his first clash with the law." This is an old journalistic stunt, but Kellerman had a new twist. Instead of going to jail with the connivance of police, the usual method used by reporters, Kellerman proposed to say nothing to the police, get himself arrested while seemingly committing...
...pictures driving an angry fist into his palm. His conversation was not for quotation, but the papers soon blossomed out with stories that Ike would not run on the same ticket with Nixon unless Nixon came out of his trouble "clean as a hound's tooth."* The tabloid New York Mirror reflected the indirect statements in a more direct headline: EXPLAIN OR QUIT, IKE TO NIXON...
...Tiempo rose to last week's challenge. After missing one day, the newspaper borrowed an idle plant and triumphantly put out an eight-page tabloid edition. Santos, now ill and living in Paris, cabled congratulations to his staff. Four days later, El Tiempo confounded everybody a second time by getting its own big presses running again. Government diehards slapped on a tough new censorship which could stop the newspaper from publishing. But for the moment, El Tiempo was selling more papers than ever before...
...celebrated tabloid case of Billy Rose v. Eleanor Holm (TIME, Jan. 14) finally reached the comparative dignity of a jampacked little Manhattan courtroom. As a show it was Rose's biggest flop. He had countered Eleanor's suit for separation by charging her with adultery with five men about town & country, and the billing for the opening show promised the most sensational divorce trial in years. But the presiding judge quickly disappointed the expectant crowd of reporters. He called the principals and their lawyers into his chambers for a 2½-hour talk. When it was over...