Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days after Lex Barker, cinema's tenth Tarzan, signed a marriage license to wed flame-haired Cinemactress Arlene (Watch the Birdie) Dahl, she suddenly called the whole thing off, flew back to Hollywood in a huff. Tarzan followed in another plane, found her, and promised breathless tabloid readers a happy ending as they headed back to Manhattan together. Explained Arlene: "What actually happened was that two dog-tired people just emotionally exploded over a simple misunderstanding...
...committee chiefly wanted to know about a four-page anti-Tydings tabloid which the Times-Herald had published to help Republican Candidate John Marshall Butler to victory. The tabloid ran a picture of an open-mouthed Communist Earl Browder standing close to Tydings, who was in a pose of thoughtful listening. The caption labeled the picture "composite" (i.e., two separate pictures pasted together), but at first glance it looked as if Tydings and Browder had actually posed together. The caption added that Tydings had said, "Oh, thank you, sir," after Browder's testimony in the Tydings committee...
Bazy Miller testified that Joe McCarthy, who was helping out in the Butler campaign, had asked her to print the tabloid, and she had turned the job over to her chief editorial writer, Frank M. Smith...
...rifle cracked inside the dark house. Mrs. Gehr toppled over, dead, with a bullet hole between her eyes. The rifle cracked again, and the detectives-one of them wounded in the arm-charged off in frantic retreat. Mrs. Matthews jumped out a rear window and ran, too-according to tabloid reports, completely naked...
Alice in Wonderland. The Post's charges were duplicated in London's more flamboyant papers, always alert for a sensation. In a front-page article, the tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,500,000) flatly charged that "the world is not getting the truth" about the war. The reason, wrote Mirror Correspondent Davis Walker, a veteran World War II reporter, was due to the "dreadfully distorted" news coming from "Alice-in-Wonderland information handed out at high level...