Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the Government's blessing, New York's tabloid News pulled the handle this week on what it called "the biggest jackpot in history." The News began printing the names of thousands of New Yorkers to whom the Government owes nearly $5,000,000 in old income-tax refunds...
...Feud. But Winchell's split with Lyons was mild compared to his old feud with Daily News Columnist Ed ("Little Old New York") Sullivan. Sullivan was sports editor of the old New York Graphic when the tabloid began Winchell's "Broadway Hearsay" column. After Winchell moved on to Hearst's Mirror at a fancy salary, Sullivan inherited his column spot. The feud officially began when Winchell accused Sullivan of columnar "blackmail" for inviting Heiress Barbara Hutton to throw a party for poor children in New York (she sent...
...local campaign, a crank twice tried to dynamite the papers' plant. The Review also battled plans for Grand Coulee dam, but even former Staffer Dyar now admits that the dam brought "a new era of prosperity and growth" to the Northwest. Cowles built a quartet of still thriving tabloid weeklies, the Idaho Farmer, Washington Farmer, Oregon Farmer and Utah Farmer (total circ...
London's tabloid Daily Mirror is Britain's earthiest daily and the world's biggest (circ. 4,500,000). Until last week, its undisputed boss was 67-year-old Harry Guy Bartholomew, who was responsible for its pepperpot tone and all-out backing of Labor. Last week, after 50 years on the Mirror, "Mister Bart" was out. He was retiring, said the board of directors, because of his "advancing years and an earnest desire to promote the advancement of younger men." Actually, at a turbulent meeting of the Mirror board, Mister Bart was voted out of power...
...aspiring astronaut almost overplayed the gag. After a London tabloid splashed a picture of the "passport" across half a page, hundreds of people asked for passports and announced their readiness to trade this world for another. Plaintively the society announced that it was all a fake-they were not prepared to sell any round-trip tickets from Liverpool Airport to Mars. They had never even bought any shares in "British Milky Way Space Ships, Inc." Then the scientists went back to what they know how to handle: their telescopes, their rocket motors, and the antiseptic world of interstellar mathematics...