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...hoofer named Walter Winchell, "a prodigy who, by some form of self-hypnosis, came to feel himself the center of his time." Gauvreau hoots at Winchell's illiteracy (he called Zola a famed woman writer, described Paris as a seaport city), damns Winchell for perfecting the kind of tabloid journalism he himself did most to encourage. Editing Winchell for libel "developed in me a philosophical imperturbability which, otherwise, my nervous make-up might never have acquired." Said Arthur Brisbane of Winchell's jargon: "Shake speare described it. 'A tale told by an idiot, full of sound...
...news was broken by Marshall Field III, wealthy backer of Manhattan's tabloid PM. He said that he and "a group of friends" had definitely decided to go ahead with their plan. The one friend whom Field named*; was Silliman Evans, publisher of the Nashville Tennessean-an experienced publisher who may be capable of tangling successfully with Colonel Robert McCormick of the Tribune...
Marshal Field, backer of the New York tabloid PM, put up the money. The Center's board of directors includes two social psychologists, Princeton's Professor Hadley Cantril and Harvard's Professor Gordon W. Allport, and University of Denver's Chancellor Caleb F. Gates Jr., onetime star Princeton tackle and track man. For active operators the academicians will lean on two experienced pollsters, British-born Harry H. Field (no kin to Marshall Field), who worked six years for George Gallup and organized the British Institute of Public Opinion, and F. Douglas Williams, who worked for Elmo...
...press Mr. Roosevelt gave a free headline: "President Quotes Lincoln and Draws Parallel." Many a U.S. newspaper used the headline; and the New York (tabloid) Daily Mirror decided to give Mr. Roosevelt a check for a tyro head-writer's daily pay, sent him $5.94, deducting 6? for Social Security...
Famed for its losses (about $25,000 a week), the Marshall Field-Ralph Ingersoll tabloid PM last week had apparently produced a money-making byproduct. It was a national Sunday supplement called Parade, with content lifted discreetly from PM itself. Fifth issue of Parade was last week distributed to 700,000 readers through newsstands (5? a copy), such un-PM-like newspapers as the Nashville Tennessean, John Shively Knight's Detroit Free Press and Akron Beacon-Journal, Eugene Meyer's Washington Post...