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...political bigwigs, wrote the Kennedy Administration last week urging U.N. membership for two Germanys and two Chinas, the United Press International dutifully dispatched the news to subscribing papers. In New York, the exhaustive ("All the News That's Fit to Print") Times ignored the item, and the tabloid Daily News put it on the obituary page...
...Times voice is very much the echo of the reserved and unassuming man who runs it. It is the most intellectual and unsensational tabloid in the U.S.; on Sundays it carries a "dignity section''-Field's own idea-full of thoughtful articles on educational techniques, the constitutional aspects of the Presidency, and the agenda of the last U.N. General Assembly session. Two years ago, when Field bought the Daily News from John Knight, he was advised to reach for a mass market with the tabloid Sun-Times and to aim the News at quality readership. Field disagreed...
...accumulated by his grandfather, the senior Field was also a fervent New Dealer and devotee of liberal causes. He founded his paper mainly to give battle to McCormick's ultraconservative, Roosevelt-baiting Tribune. The paper was something of a flop. By 1950, after turning the Sun into a tabloid, merging it with the Chicago Times and spending $10 million of his own money, the elder Field had succeeded only in evoking the colonel's amusement ("Marshall Field is an authority on horse racing, yacht racing and grouse shooting, but he knows little about newspapers"). Marshall Field III apparently...
Nice to Call. In Britain the reaction was mixed. "Be glad," trumpeted the tabloid Daily Sketch, while the Church of England newspaper warned against "blurring" of the "precise dogmatic cleavage" between the two churches. The Rev. Howard Stanley, secretary of the Congregational Union, said that Congregationalists would wish the Archbishop well; but the moderator of the Church of Scotland, the Rev. John Burleigh, sniffed that it was "nice of the Archbishop to call on the Pope, but I hope only pleasantries will be exchanged...
...Avance, shuttered by the regime in January, prints 10,000 copies of a 6-in. by 9-in. miniature of a handsome, slick-paper tabloid, which are sneaked into Cuba by volunteer travelers, fishing boats, and roundabout from South America and Europe through unwatched commercial mails. Editor Jorge Zayas, aggressive heir to a publishing dynasty and grandson of a former President of Cuba, plans to add Miami social notes to the paper's steady diet of Cuban colony news. Although an estimated 7,500 copies of Avance reach Cuba every week (at least 2,500 are confiscated or dumped...