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...newsstand seller in the U.S., has been attracting libel suits along with circulation. Last week Publisher Robert Harrison's bimonthly dirt digest admitted making its first payment for libel: a $9,000 out-of-court settlement to Lyle Stuart, editor of Expose (circ. 20,000), a muckraking monthly tabloid...
...responsible British press paid little heed, but, as is often the case in British royal family matters, the gossip got an added fillip from a big play in New York's tabloid Daily News, which quoted unnamed "sources close to the royal household." London's own Woman's Sunday Mirror caught the ball and tossed it even higher, with a report that "priests in Rome are now taking part in three special days of prayer for the conversion of the Princess to the Roman Catholic faith." The Mirror went on to quote "an important Vatican official...
...term circulation trend has been going against them as Negroes win a surer place in U.S. society and switch to general-interest papers and magazines (TIME, Nov. 7). Last week, taking the hint, Chicago's 50-year-old weekly Defender (circ. 50,000) turned itself into a daily tabloid with a strong typographical resemblance to New York's Daily News and contents designed to compete with other Chicago dailies. The only Negro daily in the North, and the second in the U.S. (after Atlanta's World), the Defender still concentrates heavily on Negro news...
...many a pub in gambling-minded Britain, was the noise of bets being paid off. The London Times, which managed to editorialize on the news without mentioning Townsend by name, commended Margaret for doing what was "expected of her." The self-appointed leader of the opposite side, the brash tabloid Daily Mirror, proclaimed: "A crisis has come to the serene cloisters of the Church of England. Slowly, a wave of anger mounts against the Primate, bringing with it a tide of doubt about the teachings of the church on divorce." The Archbishop of Canterbury, appearing on a TV interview,* insisted...
...TIME, June 13) had been fitted with an underpass and Vienna's first escalators, which contributed their share of excitement (INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE WITH ESCALATORS AND FiDELio headlined one Vienna tabloid). Nearby streets sprouted new arc lights and fresh flowers. Not in years had Vienna's women had a similar occasion for dressing up; archducal and bourgeois jewelry alike came out of hock or hiding. Demel's, Vienna's calorie-proud confectioner, combined Austria's two major treasures-music and food-in an exhibition of sugar figurines representing notable Vienna opera greats, e.g., Sopranos Maria Jeritza...