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...night last week, William Raphael McCabe, 63, a fighting editor of the old school, left his farm outside Joliet (Ill.) and headed his car for the city. It was press night for the 21st anniversary issue of his tabloid weekly Spectator-the last issue before the Illinois Republican primary. Stocky Editor McCabe, a onetime Republican state's attorney and opponent of Governor Dwight Green's machine, was a candidate for ward committeeman...
Wrong Guesser. In 24 years of reporting, including stints for Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror, "Aunt Geneviève" has hung up a few scoops, and a record array of wrong guesses. Her daily routine includes interviews with diplomats every forenoon, and phone calls to "well-informed friends" in London and Geneva every evening. In her elegant Right Bank apartment, she has three telephone lines and a phone in every room...
...eight-year-old tabloid PM, Manhattan's youngest newspaper, was still dying last week - but not quite dead. At the last minute Owner Marshall Field gave PM a two-week reprieve. He still hadn't found anyone to buy it (PM is losing $15,000 a week, and its circulation is falling), but there had been "a number of nibbles...
...British tabloid readers, Glubb is already a legendary creature like T. E. Lawrence ("of Arabia"). They imagine him to be tall and slim, with steely blue eyes and commanding voice. Actually his voice is soft, his eyes watery. A World War I wound clipped off a chunk of his jaw, bent his features into a permanent smile. Among the Arabs he is known as Abu Huneik (Father of the Little Chin...
Hearst First. When the Sun set, its circulation was 305,000, a 45,000 drop since September, when it shrank to a tabloid. The Times has 468,000. Field hopes the Sun & Times will keep a total of 650,000 a day, second only to the Trib's 1,000,000. "From now on," a Field executive chirped hopefully, "we'll concentrate on Hearst,* and get at McCormick sideways. " His optimism was not contagious. Marshall Field, his pleasant smile and soft voice gone for once, snapped: "I have nothing to say-on or off the record...