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...could only hope that Esmond and Ann Rothermere knew what they were doing. At least, the Rothermeres knew what they wanted: more zip and more readers for the Daily Mail (now 1,900,000), which has lagged far behind Beaverbrook's giant Express (3,700,000) and the tabloid, Labor-loving Mirror (3,400,000) since the Government took the lid off circulations. Hard-handsome, hard-talking, hard-drinking Frank Owen, once an eager Beaver-boy himself, seemed...
...Well, Mr. Markel," said Ochs, "if a tabloid prints it, it is smut; if the Times prints it, it is sociology...
...tabloid New York Daily News told it this...
...Times's Sunday Editor Markel (see above) had several ready reasons why nearly four times as many people read the tabloid Daily News as the Times. The Times scorns gossip, leg art and comics; but the fact is that even on the Times's home ground-the important news-the Daily News often says it better...
Died. Harry Kendall Thaw, 76, multimillionaire turn-of-the-century playboy whose murder of famed Architect Stanford White over Evelyn Nesbit in 1906 was the granddaddy of all tabloid sensations; of coronary thrombosis; in Miami Beach. Eccentric girl-chaser Thaw put three bullets in White at a Manhattan roof garden for the alleged seduction, before Thaw had married her, of ex-Floradora Girl Evelyn...