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...Denver Post, and also to reporters with such fine Gaelic names as Scripps-Howard's Andrew Tully and the Chicago Daily News's William McGaffin, the Queen was "a doll, a living" doll." The Post also, thought she was "a honey." Manhattan tabloid headlines called her Liz, and the Chicago Daily News's Robert E. Hoyt paid the ultimate democratic compliment: "But for the grace of God, she'd be plain Lizzie Battenberg...
...Spies, never dull. The story concerned a psychopathic killer, who haunts a frightened cop, "a man without guile, walking perhaps to death when his heart was full of new life." Winchell's old vaudeville training stood him in good stead, especially when he had to talk about "the tabloid fury of the only city that never truly goes to sleep" or play amateur detective and whoosh across town in his radio car, sirens screaming, to beat the New York police force to the scene of violence. And then, the plain little moral: "It's all right...
...Trib became lighter-if not brighter-by the departure of a dozen disgruntled top Trib hands, among them City Editors Joseph Herzberg and Fendall Yerxa, Pulitzer Prize-winning Correspondent Homer Bigart (who went to the Times). The revamping job turned the paper into a vamp, neither Times nor tabloid-nor Trib. By then the smallest of Manhattan's seven major dailies, the Herald Tribune earned the additional distinction of being the only morning paper that had a substantial weekday circulation drop: from a 1955 peak of 387,276 to 367,248 this year. And despite such costly come...
Sinerama. Though barely old enough to vote, brash, nightclub-pallid John J. Miller is precocious enough to be Broadway's most scurrilous keyhole peeper. For Manhattan's National Enquirer (circ. 119,055), a Sunday tabloid ("The World's Liveliest Paper") that caters to subway society with a churnful of cheesecake, a flutter of racing tips and leering feature stories (LANA TURNER: A GIRL NEEDS MORE THAN A BOSOM), Miller writes what is probably the yeastiest scandal column printed anywhere. Besides his own bylined sinerama each week, thick-set ("six feet when I stand up straight") John Miller...
...three papers, the World-Telegram is the only one hit hard enough by the circulation drop to have cut its advertising rates this summer; its sales fell 19%. compared with 16.2% for the Journal-American and 18.2% for the tabloid Post (circ. 350,814). The World-Telly has brightened its own financial section with new features, e.g., columns on Wall Street gossip, market letters and mutual funds, and switched Charles G. Haskell from his job as assistant managing editor, to run the business and financial pages. A spokesman denied that the changes were inspired by the Journal's plans...