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After a week of dry runs and sleepless nights, the Los Angeles Times this week took the wraps off its tabloid Mirror (TIME, Aug. 16), the first new metropolitan newspaper in seven years.* It turned out to be a surprise package, typographically...
Publisher Virgil Pinkley and his boss, Times Publisher Norman Chandler, preferred not to raid staffs of papers like the New York Daily News to get tabloid know-how for the jazzy paper they hoped to put out. Instead, they picked up local talent; for a city editor they got florid Ralph ("Casey") Shawhan, an ex-Hearstling who knew the town well but had turned to movie pressagentry five years...
Newsmen wondered whether Pinkley and crew could learn the tricks of the tabloid trade fast enough to weather the rough days ahead. There were rumors that Hearst had shipped in 600 tons of extra newsprint in preparation for a ding-dong circulation...
...half away. Now, in the "heelers' room," where young Yalemen compete for places on the board, the Daily News (circ. 3,000) has its own offset press and folder, with three new Vari-Typers down the hall. It can print more pictures and is boosting its tabloid size from an average eight pages daily to twelve...
Born. To Winthrop Rockefeller, 36, oilman grandson of the late John D., and Barbara Paul Sears ("Bobo") Rockefeller, 32, blonde daughter of a coal miner, whose marriage to "America's most eligible bachelor" last Valentine's Day was the tabloid romance of the year: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Winthrop Paul. Weight...