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...Wise Hobson. By last week the Offering had become nationwide, with Lawyer Taft as its chairman and Eric Gibberd, a onetime department store executive (Abraham & Straus, Inc. in Brooklyn, Mably & Carew in Cincinnati), as its executive secretary. The Offering is working with posters, stickers, pamphlets, nationwide publicity, and a tabloid Hold the Line News. No diocesan or parish quotas are set. First 100% offering reported: from St. Andrew's Mission (48 communicants), Washington Court House. Ohio, oldtime home of Harry Micajah Daugherty...
...miles away the New York Journal on successive days covered its front page with pictures of: 1) June Robles before the kidnapping; 2) her "coffin prison" in the desert; 3 ) June receiving "a warm kiss from her loving mother"; 4) June examining her school report card. The New York tabloid Mirror ran an interview, headed "TOT TELLS TORTURES." The interview went as follows...
...corpse of Stavisky was among the photographs in TIME Jan. 29] I was surprised, and disgusted, but felt that such a slip could not happen again. Having subscribed-without a break-to TIME since March 1923, I have had ample opportunity to notice that TIME does not indulge in Tabloid photographs nor Gum-Chewers-Sheetlet reporting. Since the number of April 9 displaying on p. 19 another even bloodier corpse I feel you have definitely joined the brotherhood for which you profess such smug scorn. I realize this is a waste of typewriter ink and time, but hope that...
...which may not raise the national dramatic level but can usually be counted upon to raise a dust cloud of national controversy, ran true to form. Taking advantage of advance press releases, gabby Walter Winchell jumped the gun a full two weeks by announcing in his radio period and tabloid column that the 1933-34 prizewinner was Men in White by Sidney Kingsley. This was startling and unpleasant news to the play jury composed of Clayton Hamilton, oldtime drama-critic, Author Walter Prichard Eaton (Boy Scouts in the Dismal Swamp}, and Play wright Austin Strong (Seventh Heaven}. Incensed...
...first-rate layout of picture pages, thoroughgoing and breezy coverage of city news, sports and the Broadway scene, an irreducible minimum of foreign news (as few as one or two stories a day), a profusion of spry comics and features, and the strangest boast ever made by a tabloid: "THE MOST TALKED-ABOUT EDITORIAL PAGE IN NEW YORK...