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...Oklahoman didn't quite realize what it was letting itself in for. The wire services picked up the story, landed it in newspapers across the U.S. In New York, Hearst's tabloid Daily Mirror offered $200 in prizes for the best letters of advice to Mrs. H. In three days, 3,000 letters from every state and Canada flooded into the Oklahoman's city rooms; the telephones rang constantly with long-distance callers. Four out of ten letter-writers advised Mrs. H. to seek comfort in God; one letter suggested consolation in whisky. Hundreds urged...
...fragment of what appeared to be the widow's red plastic handbag in the yard of an abandoned factory, Haigh was arrested. London's liveliest dailies splashed the story over Page One. After reporters learned that the Yard was hunting five other missing persons, the tabloid Mirror, the world's largest daily (circ. 4,000,000) and London's most sensational, promptly cried "Bluebeard" and headlined: HOW MANY RICH WIDOWS DIED...
London newspapers carried a brief factual report of Bolam's conviction, with no hints of vampires. None protested the verdict. The Times, which had printed only official announcements in the Haigh case, even cheered Lord Goddard; it thought its tabloid contemporary guilty of "a plain abuse of the right to report news freely...
...British newspapers have stirred themselves into a small uproar over pictorial representations of Christ. When the Rev. George B. Chambers, vicar of Carbrooke Church in Norfolk, undertook a journey to Bulgaria to witness the Protestant pastors' trial (TIME, March 7), the tabloid Daily Mirror indignantly published a picture of the crucifix which Vicar Chambers commissioned in 1935-Young Christ Triumphant (see cut). Vicar Chambers was as undisturbed about the crucifix as he had been about the Bulgarian trials. "The hammer & sickle are Christian symbols," he explained...
...world might have to wait a while to hear it. Last week, after Madrid's tabloid Informaciones had exhumed the story, music-and mystery-loving Madrilenos were taking their choice of two suggested explanations. The prosaic one insisted that Maria was hanging on to Manuel's last music because she and German were quarreling about minor details of Manuel's will. The more poetic theory: just before his death, Manuel had told Maria that the role of God in La Atlantida must be sung by one who was absolutely pure in heart...