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...newsstands last week was the second issue of a brand-new newspaper: Children's Times ("The Complete Newspaper for Boys & Girls"). The 10? semimonthly, 20-page tabloid, put out by Manhattan's Leader Enterprises Inc., had something for almost every child's taste. Among the features: the story of a schoolboy named Ed Hoover, who couldn't make the football team but grew up to be director of the FBI; a how-to-do-it section on teaching your parakeet to talk ("When he trusts you, he will perch on your finger while you take...
...London Times, which has not missed a day of publication since it first came out in 1788, this week showed how it hopes to make sure that it never will. The Times put on display a mobile newspaper plant which could produce 12,000 eight-page tabloid copies of the paper an hour, if the London plant were put out of commission. In three trailers and five trucks, the mobile unit has Linotype and stereotype machines, presses, typewriters, electric generators, and even desks for editors. The vehicles are connected by radio, so that the Linotypes in two of them...
...shrewd business sense pushed the paper's circulation to nearly 300,000. But in Los Angeles, where the News is the only pro-Democratic paper among the city's five dailies, the paper did not keep up with the competition, especially that of the breezy, afternoon tabloid Mirror, started in 1948 by Los Angeles Times Publisher Norman Chandler (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948). While the Mirror grew (to 212,903), the News slipped to under 200,000. Publisher Boddy, now 61, gradually wearied of the fight and his editorial chores, finally turned the paper over to Smith. He slashed...
Berger, Bronx-born, began improvising at the piano when he was ten, and once thought of a performer's career. But he was supporting himself as a music critic and ghostwriter by the time he was 20. In the early '30s, he covered modernist concerts for the tabloid Mirror while the more austere dailies were filling their columns with Rachmaninoff. Except for spells of teaching (at Mills and Brooklyn Colleges) and study (with Darius Milhaud and Nadia Boulanger), he has been at it ever since, is now the Herald Trib's most influential critic next to Critic...
...invented the gossip column," he says, and adds: "I was the real creator of daily illustrated journalism." He doesn't overstate it much. In 1905, as news and art editor of Northcliffe's Mirror, London's first picture tabloid, he helped it to pass the Daily Mail's circulation, which had been the world's biggest. But he really came into his own in 1926, after Northcliffe's death, when Beaverbrook hired him as drama critic of the Express...