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...continuing condescension of the paper toward its supposedly mature, intelligent, discriminating readership is appalling. The Crimson is a capable and influential newspaper which unfortunately is all too prone to occasional depths of literary pretension and tabloid tedium in such innocuous columns as "The Third Page" (I mean, who else would call it "The Third Page.") Your latest diatribe is a clear case of the pot calling the kettle boring. Peter Conolly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISCRIMINATING READERS | 1/20/1976 | See Source »

John Shivery Knight III was a young man with a future. At 30, he was special-projects editor of an afternoon tabloid, the Philadelphia Daily News. He had a $1,050-a-month apartment in a large building on Philadelphia's fashionable Rittenhouse Square and an art collection worth about $100,000. As a respected reporter for the Detroit Free Press, he had won an American Bar Association award. Most important, he was the millionaire grandson and a presumed heir of John S. Knight, 81, founder of the Knight-Rider Newspapers Inc., the chain that includes some 35 daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: Murder in Philadelphia | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...York Daily News is not only the nation's largest daily (circ. 1.9 million) but also the only tabloid left with a front page right out of The Front Page. Some recent screamers: PAL'S INFO LED TO SLAY SUSPECT; COPS TOSS BASH, HOOK 42 HOODS; and, when the White House first ruled out federal aid for New York City a month ago, FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Look at the News | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...BARISH ON AMERICA when a young stockbroker went streaking on Wall Street, and BOOLA BOOLA, MOOLA MOOLA over a story on the earning power of Yale graduates. Inside, however, much of the News these days is new. After decades of preoccupation with ax murders, "sexsational" divorce cases and other tabloid staples, the Noo Yawk News is going respectable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Look at the News | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...magazine, as yet unnamed, will include multiple works by individual poets and will published monthly in tabloid form Baker said...

Author: By Richard S. Blatt, | Title: Epps Approves New Journal, Says Advocate Will Not Suffer | 12/2/1975 | See Source »

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