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...school, they founded the big law firm now known as Kirkland Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis. McCormick took over management of the Chicago Tribune in 1913; Thomason followed him five years later as business manager, rose to vice president and general manager. Thomason left him in 1927, started the tabloid Chicago Times in 1929. Chicago's only New Deal paper, it was the Tribune's political antonym from the start. But Thomason never took a personal crack at his old friend Bertie McCormick...
...page leftist newsmagazine called U. S. Week. Published in Milwaukee, its subscription rate was $1 for 40 weeks. Editorial talent came mainly from ex-employes of the leftist Manhattan tabloid PM. Among them were Associate Editor Richard O. Boyer (ex-PM foreign correspondent) and National Affairs Editor Leo Huberman (ex-PM labor editor). William Dodd Jr., foreign news editor, led off with a straight pro-Soviet interpretation of the present rift between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists in China. Martha Dodd was represented only indirectly-her husband, Alfred K. Stern (member of the Communist fellow-traveling American Peace...
...Star the need for a bright, compact newspaper in modern tempo. At the same time . . . a modern motor-coach system . . . makes the old, large newspaper impractical to read while riding." Thus last week the Seattle Star gave its reason for becoming the Pacific Northwest's first tabloid. There were other reasons. They were something of a tabloid story in themselves-a story of mismanaged inheritance, hairbreadth financial escapes, family squabbling...
...kissed its $100,000 Star loan goodby. The Star decided to fold. Then came a last-minute rescue. When the remaining staff pledged part of what severance pay they would get if the paper later folded, the bank agreed to a loan. Publisher Taylor began thinking about a total tabloid...
Editor Sax Bradford went to South America. To get out the new tabloid, Sports Editor Cliff Harrison was made editor. On its first day as a tabloid the Star gained 10,000 readers, lost only 800 of them the second, has gained steadily since-from...