Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, a few with long memories recognized Edith Dahl, who, fourteen years ago, had led a successful tabloid campaign (with pleas and a picture to General Franco) for the release of her aviator husband Harold E. ("Whitey") Dahl from a Spanish prison. She was now supporting fan-dangling Sally Rand as a comic violinist in a northeast Washington nightclub. What was Whitey doing? Edith had no idea...
Florabel, once winged when she was following Racketeer Mickey Cohen, and he was fired upon by business rivals (the News then let her put a bulletproof corset on her expense account), had Tone arrested and jailed for assault. But, though she is an old tabloid hand, she didn't think the fuss was Newsworthy until the paper wired her to write...
Iran's Premier Mohammed Mossadeq, who frequently bursts into tears or faints, is nevertheless powerful enough to keep the Middle East in turmoil. But as he arrived in the U.S. last week, to continue the battle against Britain before the U.N., Manhattan's jeering, tabloid Daily News greeted him in characteristic style: WEEPER MOSSY HERE TODAY FOR U.N. SHOW...
Four Los Angeles dailies last week jacked their prices up from 7? to a dime. The city's fifth paper, the tabloid Mirror, jumped from 5? to 7?. Explained Hearst's Examiner: "It costs just three times as much to print and distribute the Examiner today as it did in 1940." Newsprint costs alone had rocketed from...
...Herald-Express, is reportedly in the red. Of all Los Angeles papers only Norman Chandler's fat, old morning Times is coining money. But it too has its troubles. It is pumping its profits into the Mirror, which it owns. Despite the Mirror's fast growth, the tabloid is still losing money. It looked as if there might be one too many papers in Los Angeles...