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...York. Editors of the Hearst-owned American Weekly prepared to bring out their widely circulated Sunday magazine (7,000,000-odd readers in 20 big newspapers) in tabloid size beginning Jan. 2. Founded in 1896, the American Weekly rates sixth in revenue among U.S. magazines, although the WPB classifies it, for newsprint-rationing purposes, as a newspaper...
Williamsport, Pa. Grit also will go tabloid at year's end. A flamboyant, copiously illustrated country weekly that goes to some 580,000 readers in & near 16,000 small U.S. towns, Grit has been informing and entertaining rural America for 61 years. Its formula: a summary of the week's news, plenty of almanackish data, homemaking hints, news and features about Hollywood, radio and sports...
Nudity Is Not Enough. There was only a skeleton staff hanging around in the tabloid Daily News's city room when the Associated Press teletype clattered briefly, spewed forth a two-paragraph bulletin about the discovery of Patricia Lonergan's body. Customary Sunday evening doldrums vanished. Mention of a "nude body" and the murder weapons (candlesticks) was promising. But only when they saw "triplex apartment" and"Beekman Hill" did News staffers know they had something. The fastest-breaking crime staff in the U.S. swung into action...
Spink met World War II by changing his paper to a tabloid and introducing news of other sports, too. Circulation dipped only onefourth, to 125,000. Then Spink hit his homer: an eight-page edition for servicemen...
...experimental New York tabloid which has never accepted a line of paid advertising in its three-year life, is seriously considering accepting...