Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frances ("Peaches") Browning, 40, tabloid-touted child-bride of the '205, got special mention in the will of her third husband, the late Joseph Civelli, San Francisco department-store executive, who left an estate of some $50,000. Wrote Civelli in his will: "It is my specific intention . . . to disinherit her completely...
Dedicated "to all the common causes of Protestantism," a new 16-page tabloid newspaper called the Protestant World ($3 for 52 issues) was mailed last week to 15,000 subscribers. The newspaper's major aim: "To present fairly, comprehensively, concisely and accurately the news of what Protestant churches, denominations, leaders, boards and agencies are doing and saying, together with reports of such secular news as may bear upon the moral and spiritual life of the nation...
...True. Hume hurried in to show the letter to Managing Editor James Russell Wiggins. They decided to send it back to the White House with a mild reply. But word of the letter spread, and the next afternoon it turned up on Page One of the tabloid Washington News...
...Thanksgiving Eve, the staff of Alicia Patterson's scrappy, prosperous (circ. 130,000) Long Island tabloid, Newsday, was well scattered, and the plant at Garden City was shut down. The paper planned to stay closed over the holiday. Then Reporter Bob Hollingsworth, who had stopped in a bar for a drink on his way home, caught a radio news bulletin. There had been a disastrous wreck on the Long Island Rail Road (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Hollingsworth tried frantically to locate Managing Editor Alan Hathway by phone, made four calls before he ran him down having dinner in a Chinese...
After sinking an estimated $25 million into his newspaper ventures, Marshall Field III had been loosening his grip on the editorial direction of his surviving daily, the tabloid Chicago Sun-Times (circ. over 610,000 daily). Last fall, though he kept the title of publisher, Field gave 34-year-old Marshall Field Jr. a lift up the ladder; he gave him day-to-day command of the news room to be shared with 50-year-old Managing Editor Milburn ("Pete") Akers (TIME, Nov. 14). This week, the elder Field made the transfer of power complete. He gave up his title...