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Died. Joseph Medill Patterson, 67, publisher of New York's whopping tabloid Daily News, cousin of Colonel "Bertie" McCormick (Chicago Tribune) and brother of "Cissie" Patterson (Washington Times-Herald); of a liver ailment; in Manhattan (see PRESS...
...42nd Street skyscraper that houses the tabloid New York Daily News, the monster presses were still, resting like exhausted giants from the ordeal of grinding out 4,500,000 fat Sunday newspapers. Upstairs in Ihe city room, a handful of early-trick Newshawks dawdled over Sunday-morning chores. They paused as a telephone buzzed, and stared at the deskman who picked it up. A quiet voice on the wire said, "He died...
...June 26, 1919, the Illustrated Daily News was born, a child so sickly that other publishers who had been toying with tabloid ideas promptly gave up. It sold out its first issue of 200,000 copies, but by August was down to 26,625, and its reportorial staff of four...
...When the trend pointed to Roxas, the Philippine Press, a Manila tabloid, printed a boldface column recalling that Jose Vera, Osmena's campaign manager, had threatened suicide if his candidate lost. The paper called on Vera to make good, suggested poison, a hand grenade, or a banzai charge on Roxas headquarters. Weaseled Vera: "I said 'I'll bet my life Osmena will win!' I never said I would commit suicide...
These are some of the "secrets" in Top Secret: earnest, shrill World War II history as interpreted by the editor of Manhattan's earnest, shrill daily tabloid PM. The subject is the Anglo-American invasion of Europe and the Battle of Germany. Editor Ingersoll, as a General Staff Corps officer, had a share in making and carrying out some of the plans involved. Top Secret was written after he was released from the Army (as a lieutenant colonel) in August...