Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles, an impartial arbitrator had just decided that the fuzzily liberal tabloid Daily News had acted properly in firing Rewriteman Vern Partlow, and in refusing to rehire Movie Reviewer Darr Smith. Both men had been named by former Communists testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee as their onetime fellow members. Both men had refused to say under oath if they were, or had been Communists. The News's Executive Editor Lee F. Payne fired Partlow and struck Darr Smith's name off a rehiring list...
Commented the laconic. Time-influenced, tabloid-size Yalie Daily...
...same time. She does it by working as long as 20 hours a day. Born in Manhattan, she went to Hunter College and studied journalism and psychology at Columbia. After marrying in 1929, she got a job editing Bell Syndicate's four-page tabloid for children called the "Sunshine Club." Later, she helped write an advice feature and did a turn as stamp columnist before becoming Dorothy...
...sister was trying to break the will on the grounds of undue influence by doctor and lawyer. Also, a witness said, the Morgan granddaughter was incompetent, had never been very bright about money, had trouble telling pennies from quarters. By week's end, the gossips and tabloid readers had something more than wills and bills to chatter about. As Lawyer Rosenblatt entered the flossy Park Avenue building where he lives, a gunman ran up out of the night and fired three shots...
Editor Lait, who has been subbing for Columnist Walter Winchell,* is an old partner-in-letters with Mortimer. In their first three "Confidential" books, they gave a tabloid-eye view of New York, Chicago and Washington, landing on bestseller lists with two of the books and picking up at least 14 threats of libel suits. U.S.A. Confidential may do even better. It is a city-by-city shotgun blast at the whole country, with special treatment for Chicago ("captive to the mobsters and political thieves"), Los Angeles ("a hokum-happy haven for psychopaths and confidence workers"), Milwaukee ("loaded with deadfalls...