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Feature Bait. McCraken built his statewide empire on an ingenious newspaper stunt. Twenty-eight years ago, he borrowed $3,000 and bought Cheyenne's sickly weekly, the Wyoming Eagle. He converted it into a daily, made it the area's first tabloid and began giving it away free. But later only paid subscribers got a special section of features (comics, serial fiction, etc.). By starting new features first in the free section of the paper, then moving them to the supplement for paid subscribers, he got more and more paid subscribers, finally stopped giving the paper away altogether...
...expected to level off at about 300,000, making it the biggest daily in the city. The Post also began to put out afternoon editions as the Times-Herald had, thus invading a territory held by the rich, successful Evening Star (circ. 234,660) and Scripps-Howard's tabloid News (138,778). Of the Times-Herald's 1,138 employees, more than 500 have been temporarily hired by the Post...
...great-grandmother. Then Mrs. Burton had little choice but to tell William the rest: his father, Wayne Lonergan, 36, is still alive, serving a 35-years-to-life stretch for the mur der of William's heiress mother, Patricia Burton Lonergan, in Manhattan's most tabloid-hued crime...
...tabloid New York Daily News, biggest paper in the U.S., was in a congratulatory mood last week. But in its usual breezy manner the News added a new twist; it was mysteriously congratulating itself. Said a News editorial: "The News congratulates numerous other newspapers, in New York and elsewhere . . . on the shrewdness and sense of their editors and owners in trying to copy so many features, practices and styles which were originated by the News . . . We cannot congratulate the people who buy these other papers. We can only commiserate with them, and hope for their sakes that their eyes...
...ailing, too tired for the job . . . The blunt truth is that Churchill's continued rule in 10 Downing Street has become a disaster to his party and to the country," shrilled London's tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,000,000). As if to make a mockery of such talk, Churchill put on his liveliest show in weeks...