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...same time. She does it by working as long as 20 hours a day. Born in Manhattan, she went to Hunter College and studied journalism and psychology at Columbia. After marrying in 1929, she got a job editing Bell Syndicate's four-page tabloid for children called the "Sunshine Club." Later, she helped write an advice feature and did a turn as stamp columnist before becoming Dorothy...
...sister was trying to break the will on the grounds of undue influence by doctor and lawyer. Also, a witness said, the Morgan granddaughter was incompetent, had never been very bright about money, had trouble telling pennies from quarters. By week's end, the gossips and tabloid readers had something more than wills and bills to chatter about. As Lawyer Rosenblatt entered the flossy Park Avenue building where he lives, a gunman ran up out of the night and fired three shots...
Editor Lait, who has been subbing for Columnist Walter Winchell,* is an old partner-in-letters with Mortimer. In their first three "Confidential" books, they gave a tabloid-eye view of New York, Chicago and Washington, landing on bestseller lists with two of the books and picking up at least 14 threats of libel suits. U.S.A. Confidential may do even better. It is a city-by-city shotgun blast at the whole country, with special treatment for Chicago ("captive to the mobsters and political thieves"), Los Angeles ("a hokum-happy haven for psychopaths and confidence workers"), Milwaukee ("loaded with deadfalls...
...preference, New York's tabloid Daily News (circ. 2,250,000) sticks to a sturdy guttural in judging the more delicate and esoteric works of man. But last week the News pulled the plug and let the adjectives flow for a new ballet...
...half months after Metropolitan Soprano Patrice Munsel, 26, stoutly denied a tabloid report that she was romancing with candy heir and television director Robert Schuler (TIME, Nov. 26), her parents announced their engagement and summer wedding plans...