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...with Anthony Eden and ran afoul of the Lord Chamberlain, who has power to grant or refuse theatrical licenses without explanation. Three days before the opening of an obscure new revue called Light Fantastic, the Lord Chamberlain ordered the offending song lyrics dropped. The net result: London's tabloid Daily Mirror, which needs no by-your-leave from the Lord Chamberlain or anyone else, printed the ditty...
...Worker last week, Platt shamefacedly confessed his sin. Wrote he: "I very carelessly lumped the tabloid weekly Jet with the others. Deplorable as it sounds, I never even looked through Jet until today. What happened was this: I was lunching at a newsstand and saw this title displayed together with others, and I jumped to the conclusion that they were all alike . . . Now that I have had a chance to look through Jet, I can see that it is quite different from the others." Then Platt confessed the worst...
Other papers also got into the act. Manhattan's tabloid Daily News called it "a five-spasm series," while such dailies as the Chattanooga Times hailed it for showing "up Senator McCarthy for the ruthless demagogue he is." Brooklyn's Roman Catholic Tablet expressed astonishment that Woltman, who has "earned widespread support as an anti-Communist writer," could abandon his "fairness, integrity and accuracy" and turn "hatchet man." The Pittsburgh Catholic, weekly newspaper of the Pittsburgh diocese, took an exactly opposite view, called the series a "study which the country needs and for which it has been waiting...
More than a dozen dailies in smaller cities have combined with their competition to print in the same plant, thus cutting production costs while keeping editorial staffs separate. Marshall Field's tabloid Chicago Sun-Times has begun to stay in the black by adding a sixth column to its five-column page, thus crowding more news into less paper. Pittsburgh's three dailies are getting ready to make a similar move by adding a ninth column to their eight-column pages. Says one publisher: "The ninth column is here to stay...
Workout in the Gym. Last year, with his father's backing, he launched the tabloid, twelve-page L'Express, hoped to "find a formula which would be a sort of cross between TIME and the [London] Economist. Servan-Schreiber has not hit that formula yet, but he has some other working formulas of his own. Up every day at 4 a.m., he works for about four hours before leaving for his office. Promptly at 7 every evening, Health Enthusiast Servan-Schreiber ("We French eat too much and exercise too little") and his ten-man staff cross the Champs...