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...Manhattan's favorite tabloid characters got married last week. The Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 36, wing-collared pastor of Harlem's big Abyssinian Baptist Church and New York's first Negro Congressman, took as a wife (his second) round-eyed, plump Hazel Scott, 25, Bach-to-boogie pianist. Their wedding should have been a tabloid editor's dream - a cast of stars, and a comedy of errors...
Last week, Manhattan's tabloid Daily News supplied the name for him: dark, dapper Henry Lustig, millionaire operator of the plushy, well-stocked, high-priced Longchamps chain (twelve restaurants in New York). Said the News: Treasury agents are investigating Lustig for alleged income-tax evasions of $5 million in the boom period of 1942-44. The Treasury suspected that Restaurateur Lustig had failed to report large, systematic with drawals of cash, $1,000 at a time, from his various tills. This cash, said the News, had been placed in safe-deposit boxes...
...Circulationwise it has remained a weak sister in her hands, trailed among Manhattan's afternoon dailies only by Field's P.M. But guided by her shrewd husband, Editor Theodore Olin Thackrey, a Postman for eight years before he married his boss, she turned the paper into a tabloid, upped the price from 3? to 5?, and (though she campaigned for the New Deal) made money...
Transatlantic Piece. Last week, hot from Le Matin's old presses, came the first 50,000-copy edition of a new four-page tabloid, the Paris Post. Directing the operations were: 1) Editor Paul Scott Mowrer, dean of the writing Mowrers (others: brother Edgar Ansel and son Richard); 2) Homburg-hatted General Manager Robert Pell, late of the State Department. Their assignment: to publish a newspaper wholly independent of the New York Post but voicing the same New Dealish views...
...report comes up for action at the next Church Assembly in October. Meanwhile, many were likely to feel, with the tabloid London Daily Mirror, that "there is much to be said for ... the mechanism of modern propaganda to bring religious truths before the nation . . . [but] what is more important than the advertising of the article to be sold is the nature of the article itself. ... In recent times Christianity-or rather, the churches which represent it-have not been delivering the right sort of goods...