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London dailies, the biggest in the world, are trying a new way to grow bigger. They are publishing children's weeklies. The breezy Laborite tabloid Minor (circ. 4,535,687) started it with Junior Mirror, filled with puzzles, junior sports news, contests, do-it-yourself news, and comics, which has already reached a circulation of 1,300,000. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (circ. 4,077,835) followed with a tabloid Junior Express, last week sold more than 900,000 copies. The cheesecake-laden Daily Sketch inserted a Junior Sketch section in one of its regular editions...
...tabloid admirers of her marriage to Winthrop Rockefeller, nothing became Bobo Rockefeller like the leaving of it-with a settlement of $5,500,000 (TIME, Aug. 16). Since then reporters have watched her like the Hope Diamond, last week asked the inevitable question after she entertained 34-year-old Charles W. Mapes Jr., a Nevada hotelman, in her 15-room Park Avenue duplex. Bobo and Charles laughed good-naturedly and sort of denied everything before driving off together. Checking their files, the tabloids were comforted to find that Charles Mapes Jr. was not just a nobody; not only does...
...Alicia Patterson, 47, editor and publisher of Long Island's tabloid Newsday (circ. 209,677), the fastest-growing and the most profitable big daily paper started in the U.S. in the last 20 years. A child of the famed Patterson-McCormick publishing dynasty, she is, nevertheless, cut from different cloth than her late, copper-haired, copper-tongued aunt, Cissy Patterson, who, as boss of the Washington Times-Herald, once confessed: "The trouble with me is that I am a vindictive old shanty-Irish bitch...
...Most important of all, she has a touch of the journalistic genius of her late father, Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, the nonconformist millionaire, who founded the New York Daily News, made it the biggest and one of the best-edited papers in the U.S., and became the father of tabloid journalism in America...
...likely to cause embarrassment to the Government of their own country . . . This makes the conduct of Mr. Attlee and his colleagues the more amazing and reprehensible." The Economist called Attlee & Co. the "Chiltern Set," drawing a parallel with the famed pre-World War II appeasing "Cliveden Set." The tabloid Daily Sketch called the Laborites "The Yellow Travelers...