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...Feud. But Winchell's split with Lyons was mild compared to his old feud with Daily News Columnist Ed ("Little Old New York") Sullivan. Sullivan was sports editor of the old New York Graphic when the tabloid began Winchell's "Broadway Hearsay" column. After Winchell moved on to Hearst's Mirror at a fancy salary, Sullivan inherited his column spot. The feud officially began when Winchell accused Sullivan of columnar "blackmail" for inviting Heiress Barbara Hutton to throw a party for poor children in New York (she sent...
London's tabloid Daily Mirror is Britain's earthiest daily and the world's biggest (circ. 4,500,000). Until last week, its undisputed boss was 67-year-old Harry Guy Bartholomew, who was responsible for its pepperpot tone and all-out backing of Labor. Last week, after 50 years on the Mirror, "Mister Bart" was out. He was retiring, said the board of directors, because of his "advancing years and an earnest desire to promote the advancement of younger men." Actually, at a turbulent meeting of the Mirror board, Mister Bart was voted out of power...
...aspiring astronaut almost overplayed the gag. After a London tabloid splashed a picture of the "passport" across half a page, hundreds of people asked for passports and announced their readiness to trade this world for another. Plaintively the society announced that it was all a fake-they were not prepared to sell any round-trip tickets from Liverpool Airport to Mars. They had never even bought any shares in "British Milky Way Space Ships, Inc." Then the scientists went back to what they know how to handle: their telescopes, their rocket motors, and the antiseptic world of interstellar mathematics...
...Washington, a few with long memories recognized Edith Dahl, who, fourteen years ago, had led a successful tabloid campaign (with pleas and a picture to General Franco) for the release of her aviator husband Harold E. ("Whitey") Dahl from a Spanish prison. She was now supporting fan-dangling Sally Rand as a comic violinist in a northeast Washington nightclub. What was Whitey doing? Edith had no idea...
Florabel, once winged when she was following Racketeer Mickey Cohen, and he was fired upon by business rivals (the News then let her put a bulletproof corset on her expense account), had Tone arrested and jailed for assault. But, though she is an old tabloid hand, she didn't think the fuss was Newsworthy until the paper wired her to write...