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...tabloid New York Daily News last month suddenly became conservative. Keyhole-peeping gossip of marital infelicity and philandering was ruled out. Divorce stories, when subjects of court record, were ordered reported without frills. No reason for the change was announced, but Newshawks heard that Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson made the decision, after witnessing the film of Five Star Final, in the belief that neighborhood movie-goers would accept the atrocities committed by the tabloid in the play as typical tabloid practice. Last week the News took another step away from ordinary tabloid practice. Apparently as an experiment, it copied...
News Story Magazine, monthly, is for people who do not keep up to date in their tabloid reading. Its stories are recapitulations of the sensations of recent months, profusely illustrated and captioned in scare-head fashion. Several of the stories in the first issue are about six months old (e. g., Starr Faithfull, Two-Gun Crowley, Bryan Untiedt) but an effort will be made to make the magazine a news-of-the-month resume. Publisher is Herman Rawitser (Flying Aces, Detective Dragnet, Football Classic, et al.); editor is one Percy L. Trussell...
...confused with the present-day tabloid which was founded...
...impressive gain made by the tabloid Mirror could hardly be accounted for by former World readers. And it is a question whether Hearst's evening Journal drew more of its new readers from the late Evening World or the vulgar tabloid Graphic...
...girl in the picture insistently scoops another reporter with whom she is in love. He knows her tendencies so well that, when bits of a dead man's diary disappear from his room and reappear on the front page of a tabloid, he suspects her of stealing them. When murderous kidnappers capture the heroine, the picture blazes into melodrama that does not subside till bevies of police have secured her release. The final shot is typical: Linda Watkins excusing herself from the table at which she is lunching with James Dunn in order to telephone an incredibly elliptical summary...