Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Breakfast Table.") In the Times, bodies are never found "lying in a pool of blood," nor "badly decomposed" in the woods. The Times was net always so squeamish. Ochs once told an editor who complained that a certain story was too smutty for the Times to print: "When a tabloid prints it, that's smut. When the Times prints it, that's sociology...
From Manhattan, the tabloid Daily News recalled with leering glee that the judge had once seen a musical called Wine, Women & Song three times before testifying that a strip-tease dancer had "turned her back . . . and rotated her buttocks." Gossipist Hedda Hopper noted that he was "the guy who made trouble for practically every studio in town" two years ago as the temporary head of the industry's self-censoring production code office. Sniffed Daily Variety: COOL RECEPTION ACCORDED PEEKER AT H'D MORALS...
...Razzle-Dazzle. After founding his Manhattan tabloid PM, now folded, Field launched the morning Chicago Sun as a full-sized newspaper in December 1941. He was gunning for Bertie McCormick's entrenched and ably edited Chicago Tribune. But in the next six years, the Sun never quite got its sights on the target and steadily lost money. In July 1947, with his major adversary still as potent as ever, Field took on two more. For $5,339,000, he bought the afternoon Times, a peppy, popular and moneymaking tabloid competing with John S. Knight's Daily News...
When affronted Reporter Gidwani suggested that Kashmir's future was a "very important question," McCormick disagreed. "American people," said he, "generally are not interested in happenings in countries very far from their own." Snapped Sorab Patell, reporter for Bombay's sensational tabloid weekly Blitz: "Are you interested in anything but yourself?" Barked Bertie: "An impudent question . . . What do you know about Alaska?" (Next day the Times of India pointedly printed a story about Alaska...
Inside, Incom told the story, which would not have sounded strange to readers of New York's old tabloid Evening Graphic.-The picture was a fake-or what Incom called a photomontage. Incom's editors had cut out the heads from an old photo of Ingrid and Roberto, and with some paste and an artist's deft strokes, superimposed them, with others, on a photograph posed against the background of a hospital room (see cut). For readers who might feel tricked, Incom ran the original photographs inside, along with a diagram showing how they were mated...