Word: tabloidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daddy") Browning. 59, eccentric Manhattan real-estate tycoon and orphan fancier; of a heart attack following pneumonia and cerebral hemorrhage; in Scarsdale, N. Y. His antics, matrimonial and otherwise, with Frances ("Peaches") Heenan (see p. 53) and other girls adopted by him, made bales of lurid copy, sent Manhattan tabloid circulation soaring...
...Manhattan tabloid Daily Mirror said that Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning said of her late husband...
...group, named United Newspaper Magazine Corp., includes such potent members as the New York Herald Tribune, Chicago Daily News, Baltimore Sim, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Washington Star, Boston Herald, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Beginning Feb. 24 the 21 will appear with the identical Sunday* tabloid magazine called This Week. Combined circulation: 4,051,000. Advertising rate: $10,000 a page. This Week's editor will be the Herald Tribune's Mrs. William Brown Meloney (TIME, Oct. 8). She will make it more conservative than The American Weekly, with first-run fiction, tony articles...
...Middle West, which inherits its opinions to a less degree than the East, has swung, at least on the surface, into the anti-administration ranks. In Chicago, pivot of the nation, only the tabloid "Times" still supports the President. Hearst has tuned against him, and Colonels McCormick and Knox, publishers of the "Tribune" and "News" respectively, are both hot-footing it after the Republican nomination in 1936 by editorially out-damning each other in successive editions. The upper middle classes, the lawyers and bankers, are scared and make no bones about the matter. The butcher and baker, rightly accepting...
...Photographers point for faces & figures. Tabloid and Hearstmen go after "cheese-cake"?leg-pictures of sporty females. All keep sharp guard against "lens-lice"? nonentities who try to force their way into a picture. To get rid of a pest a photographer may have to "French it"?pretend to take a picture, but without a plate in the camera...