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...committee chiefly wanted to know about a four-page anti-Tydings tabloid which the Times-Herald had published to help Republican Candidate John Marshall Butler to victory. The tabloid ran a picture of an open-mouthed Communist Earl Browder standing close to Tydings, who was in a pose of thoughtful listening. The caption labeled the picture "composite" (i.e., two separate pictures pasted together), but at first glance it looked as if Tydings and Browder had actually posed together. The caption added that Tydings had said, "Oh, thank you, sir," after Browder's testimony in the Tydings committee...
...rifle cracked inside the dark house. Mrs. Gehr toppled over, dead, with a bullet hole between her eyes. The rifle cracked again, and the detectives-one of them wounded in the arm-charged off in frantic retreat. Mrs. Matthews jumped out a rear window and ran, too-according to tabloid reports, completely naked...
Frances ("Peaches") Browning, 40, tabloid-touted child-bride of the '205, got special mention in the will of her third husband, the late Joseph Civelli, San Francisco department-store executive, who left an estate of some $50,000. Wrote Civelli in his will: "It is my specific intention . . . to disinherit her completely...
Alice in Wonderland. The Post's charges were duplicated in London's more flamboyant papers, always alert for a sensation. In a front-page article, the tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,500,000) flatly charged that "the world is not getting the truth" about the war. The reason, wrote Mirror Correspondent Davis Walker, a veteran World War II reporter, was due to the "dreadfully distorted" news coming from "Alice-in-Wonderland information handed out at high level...
Dedicated "to all the common causes of Protestantism," a new 16-page tabloid newspaper called the Protestant World ($3 for 52 issues) was mailed last week to 15,000 subscribers. The newspaper's major aim: "To present fairly, comprehensively, concisely and accurately the news of what Protestant churches, denominations, leaders, boards and agencies are doing and saying, together with reports of such secular news as may bear upon the moral and spiritual life of the nation...