Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., beefy (6 ft. 4 in., more than 250 lbs.) British Press Lord Cecil Harmsworth King, whose tabloid London Daily Mirror has the world's largest daily circulation though little else to brag about, offered a disdainful critique of U.S. newspapers: "A lot of little parish magazines . . . with acres of soggy verbiage, cubic miles of repetitious reports, incredibly bad headlines, nonexistent layouts and ludicrous handling of pictures...
...last five years after I die." Captain Joseph Medill Patterson may have been only half joking when he predicted the end of the New York Daily News, the big and boisterous tabloid that he ran as a one-man show from the day he helped found it* in 1919 until his death in 1946. But his survivors on the paper knew better than to fiddle with the captain's successful formula. "Those who are left behind," said the News in an obitu ary editorial, "will do their best to keep this page and the paper what he would want...
...when U.S. Publisher Gardner Cowles (Look Magazine, the Des Moines Register and Tribune) came to San Juan. Dorvillier talked Cowles out of enough money to start the Star (TIME, Sept. 21, 1959). A tiny tabloid, the Star stirred little more than amusement around the city room at El Mundo. As a result of its own bitter experience, the paper was convinced that an English-language newspaper could not survive in San Juan. Said the Star's Dorvillier dryly: "That impression will be corrected shortly." As it turned out, "shortly" was precisely the word...
...French Revolution, by Georges Pernoud and Sabine Flaissier. A spirited tabloid of the Terror culled from some 50,000 eyewitness accounts...
...life or revisit the Third Reich ranged far afield to fill space. Some went hunting for concentration camp survivors; the Denver Post interviewed 25-year-old Robert Kaye, who served when he was seven as Eichmann's orderly in a camp near Mannheim. Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror interviewed a bevy of teenagers in Queens, among them an 18-year-old rock-'n-roll singer who felt that death for Eichmann "might be letting him off too easy." From "J.C.," a man who spent 15 years in jail for a murder he did not commit, Gossip...