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...convention was Marshall Field, backer of Chicago's Sun and New York's PM. He urged the Negro press to go easy on the race issue. The advice was interesting, since he is also the backer of a Negro paper, a four-month-old Harlem tabloid called The People's Voice (to which last week he extended "another $25,000 of credit...
...Comics are rapidly shrinking from five to four columns, with many a comic and Sunday magazine section due to go tabloid...
...language most lawyers use might just as well be written in Sanskrit, so far as the layman is concerned. But no man, no matter how lay, would have trouble understanding the language of Lawyer Richard Knight. Socialite Knight, who used to shock friends and intoxicate New York tabloid readers by such didos as kicking out taxicab windows and standing on his head at a Metropolitan Opera opening, who for years has swung a legal tomahawk around New York courts, terrifying lawyers and citizens alike, has devoted himself during the past two years to writing. He writes a simple, direct, Elizabethan...
With a format close to that of the revolutionary New York tabloid-crusader, the Poon will crusade for many improvements in society. One of the main objects of attack and exposure will be the Law of Diminishing Returns, which the parody issue will demand be repealed...
...said the Post made the change because she was impressed, while commuting, with the difficulty readers had in trying to handle a full-sized newspaper. She was able to announce a highly satisfactory result: the Post's 208,000 circulation jumped. 30% within a week as a tabloid, passed the 235;625 circulation it had when the Backers bought it from J. David Stern. Publisher Stern pushed his circulation with premiums-from records to reprints of Van Gogh. The Backers, who have poured more than $1,000,000 into the long-ailing Post, have tried no circulation stunts, have...