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...London last week, the world's biggest daily, the tabloid Mirror (circ. 4,432,700) got out its three-inch type for a single banner headline: WOMEN. In smaller type, the Mirror added: Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, the World's No. 1 Sexo-analyst, Blows the Gaff Today on All About Eve. Indiana's Dr. Alfred Kinsey was not alone in blowing the gaff. K-day -the prearranged release date* for a summary of his book on Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (TIME, Aug. 24)-set off the biggest and raciest commotion the world...
During the summer doldrums, newspapers give away free dishes, free trips to Miami, free encyclopedias, free almost anything-just to keep circulation going. This summer, Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror is simply giving away money. By last week, after one month of its "Lucky Bucks Treasure Hunt," the Mirror had tossed out some...
...Mirror to win an award. You may inspect a copy of the paper free . . ." But all over the Mirror circulation area, and as far away as Miami, Fla. (where a treasure hunter spotted a Lucky Buck originally spent in a White Plains store), people were buying the tabloid to compare its numbers with their dollars. Lucky Bucks not redeemed in seven days lost their magic; after that, they were worth 100 cents...
Like cartoon characters in the comic strips, many newspaper columnists never seem to grow old. For six years the same picture of Frank Kingdon, a onetime Methodist minister, has illustrated his "To Be Frank" column in the tabloid, New York Post, it was the likeness of a mildly balding, clean-shaven man in his 40s. Last week Dr. Kingdon, 59, decided to be frank about his looks. Without warning to the readers, the Post overnight changed photographs, used a new one of a bald, bearded and much older man (see cuts...
...that were all, The Narrows would be merely the retelling of a sordid tabloid standby. But Author Petry, serious as she is about her seriously told plot, almost lets it take second place to other and better things: Negro life in broken-down Bumble Street, Aunt Abbie's sturdy effort to clothe her existence in dignity. Best of all is the rich parallel story of little Malcolm Powther, the dignified Treadway butler, and his blowsy, handsome, blues-singing, two-timing wife. Link and Camilo have a fictional survival period of one publishing season at best. Had Author Petry stuck...