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...cast covetous eyes on the governorship, but Publisher Norman Chandler, 54-year-old chief of the Chandler clan, thought that was going too far. Whatever the reasons for the falling out, the Chandlers drew first blood last October (TIME, Oct. 19) with a series of articles in their tabloid, the Los Angeles Mirror-denouncing Bonelli and his "saloon empire." Big Bill's board, charged the Mirror, displayed incredible laxity in freely handing out liquor licenses to racketeers and political cronies for only $525 each, and allowing them to be resold at the going rate of $6,500. Bonelli retaliated...
...miracle man. Every newspaperman knows it takes three to five years to pull a new paper out of the red." He was optimistic. At the start, the Mirror, only new U.S. metropolitan daily since war's end. was also a strange-looking infant. Its tabloid Page One was printed sideways, so that it looked just like a full-size daily until readers took it off the newsstand and opened it up. Few readers bothered; from its first press run of 500,000 copies, its sales plummeted to only 72,000 readers...
...year-old New York Times printed the biggest paper in its history (430 pages, 4 lbs. 14 oz.), including a two-page edition "for the record" for every one of the days missed during the strike, along with four news sections (152 pages) crammed with Christmas ads. The tabloid News printed 532 pages for its six different editions for the New York and New Jersey areas, with a double portion of comics, and 23,000 lines more advertising than the same edition last year. All five Sunday papers were so heavy and hard to handle that hundreds of extra trucks...
...other hand, on a fast-breaking story; the city staff can mobilize as fast as a Manhattan tabloid covering a shooting in a Park Avenue love nest. Recently the P-D got a head start on the Greenlease kidnaping, when John Kinsella, its veteran police reporter, noticed an unusual stir of activity around headquarters. He rightly guessed that the kidnapers had been found, and thus put the P-D in position to turn loose a 13-man staff on the story before any other paper...
...national funeral. The magical Magyars won, 6-3, and at the very end, the stands rose as one in thunderous, generous applause for the Hungarians. The British press made no alibis. The Times wrote: "The Hungarians shot with the accuracy of archers. It was Agincourt in reverse." The tabloid Daily Mirror and the good grey Times both had the same thought: "It was the twilight of the Gods." With wry humor the Express also noted a consolation: "England came back victoriously last night. Her pingpong players beat a Hungarian team...