Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pound, Sheridan offered to give another six-month-old puppy a home. Dogcatcher Jacob Roeper refused; he was going to put the dog to death by gas, and said that the law backed him up. Reader Sheridan asked for help from Long Island's lively tabloid Newsday, published by Alicia Patterson Guggenheim, daughter of the late Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News (TIME...
...haled the proprietors of Buenos Aires' staunchly independent newspapers La Prensa and La Nation into court on libel charges. Other papers were also punished for opposition to his regime. Salta's outspoken El In-transigente found its newsprint supply cut off and so did Buenos Aires' tabloid Clarin. In Cordoba, inspectors found the printing plant of the firmly anti-Peronista Jesuit daily Los Principios "insanitary," and peremptorily padlocked it. This week Los Principios and Clarin had been allowed to resume publication, but a congressional committee closed the Communist daily La Hora, charging it with "anti-Argentine activities...
...good spanking for Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 17, was recommended by the Sunday Pictorial, a London tabloid, because "her behavior in breaking off engagements has become as silly as a schoolboy smoking cigars." Meanwhile, in Hollywood, beautiful Elizabeth had a date with a new fellow: Home Run Slugger Ralph Kiner of the Pittsburgh Pirates...