Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like all U.S. dailies, the News is plagued by mounting newsprint prices and production costs. And its newest, breeziest competitor, the three-year-old afternoon tabloid Mirror, is taking more & more of its readers...
...days, beginning last February, Buenos Aires' yanqui-baiting tabloid El Laborista has front-paged 134 unflattering, sneeringly captioned pictures of Harry Truman. Sample picture and caption (in translation...
...documented by the Chinese Reds themselves. The Communist papers are at their gleeful best in reporting mass killings of "counter-revolutionaries." The present propaganda line attempts to scare peasants into submission, and so the Red journalist dwells on the gory details with all the morbid gusto of a tabloid reporter on a chorus girl murder...
...downfall of Arky and Judge Greet is the subject of Little Men, Big World, a speedy tabloid novel. The mob is beset by two enemies: a big-city gang trying to muscle in, and a dull but startlingly honest police commissioner who is trying to clean up the town. In a flash-bang climax, the judge is killed by the rival mobsters, Arky avenges the murder in a downtown hotel, is caught by the cops, slips away, is caught again. In the end, facing the chair, he feels a sudden surge of relief, which may even be the first...
Whitney, long MacArthur's spokesman in Tokyo, was not an unqualified success in New York. The New York Herald Tribune, Post and the tabloid Daily News cried editorially, as one, that his pronouncements were a liability to the general. The News, while applauding MacArthur, did not conceal its restiveness at his Olympian remoteness, and noted in irascible tones that the cops who were holding back its reporters had let a burglar enter the exclusive Waldorf and get away with a fur coat...