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...immoral, unscrupulous, corrupt and destructive." To its proprietor, Marion Rospach, 36, a stocky, energetic divorcee with a tomboy bob, it is a paper of high moral tone because it refuses to cover sodomy cases or "trials involving indecent assaults on children." But the Overseas Weekly, an English-language tabloid published in Frankfurt, West Germany, balks at little else, takes particular delight in headlining the missteps of military brass. By last week, the Overseas Weekly had claimed a two-star victim...
Publisher Rospach has never been bothered by such criticism. The Overseas Weekly is the type of tabloid that she had in mind in 1950 when, after serving a stint on Stars and Stripes, she decided to launch a paper that would begin where the semi-official Stars and Stripes left off. By 1953 she was serializing ex-G.I. George Jorgensen's operation (CHRISTINE CASTRATION RAPPED) and the details of Call Girl Pat Ward's journey into prostitution. The USAREUR (U.S. Army in Europe) command removed Overseas Weekly from Stars and Stripes newsstands all over Europe. Owner Rospach...
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...