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Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt was getting nothing . . . nothing . . . for her wretched years of motherhood. She had been forced to sell a $75,000 diamond for $30,000. She was reduced to living in a $175-a-month Manhattan apartment. Last week tradesmen were boldly presuming to offer her jobs-the tabloid New York Daily News announced, with a frightful leer, that Reggie Vanderbilt's 40-year-old widow had been asked to peddle phonograph needles at "$50 a jab." And to make it all practically unendurable, her own daughter, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, with a fortune of $4,500,000, refused...
Tall, dark & handsome Lieut. Colonel John Reagan ("Tex") McCrary, 35 and out of the A.A.F., had to decide a typical veteran's problem: did he want his old job back? His old job was chief editorial writer for Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror. He asked himself a loaded question: "Why waste your time trying to in fluence people who move their lips when they read?" That...
...tabloid New York Post, whose sawed-off columns are already top-heavy with columnists (the Post prints 35), last week found room for one more. The new column, "This Little World," came from an old hand. Moustached, spaniel-eyed Franklin Pierce Adams, 64, got his start in 1903, grinding out columns for $25 a week on the old Chicago Journal. When he manned the "Conning Tower" in the old New York World, such wits and literary wights as Dorothy Parker and John O'Hara were among his unpaid contributors...
...want of a future, the tabloid Paris Post, four-page little sister of the New York Post, quietly folded last week after 177 issues. Reason: its G.I. readers were going home too fast; the U.S. tourists it had counted on had not yet arrived...
When in doubt, many a Hearstpaper's editor turns to the New York Journal-American, favorite of "The Chief," to get his cues. A handy day-by-day echo of W.R.'s policies and moods, it accurately calls his often devious signals. The tabloid Mirror, its morning cousin, can usually hear the quarterback best, being closest. But last week Hearst's Manhattan running mates got their signals crossed...