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...mishap, after a flight of 5,060 miles from Friedrichshafen in South Germany. She broke every record of distance and speed for airships of any type, from any country. For the first time, mail and freight from Berlin reached Manhattan in less than five days: messages of goodwill, a tabloid edition of the VÖssische Zeitung, a sack of 1,000 toys for Wanamaker's famed department store, a walking doll for Major Frank M. Kennedy's little daughter...
...modest man who keeps himself far in the background, yet he is the power which has made the Times go round. "I am no genius," he explains. "All one needs is common business sense, common editorial sense, and a common sense of responsibility." But anyone who glances at a tabloid career of the man whose greatest achievement is the building of the Times can hardly avoid raising a skeptical eyebrow and asking "No genius...
...CULTURE FAMILY ($500 Prize Story.) THE BODY BEAUTIFUL A MILLION BEING TREATED BY CHIROPRACTIC-RUSSIAN BRIDES AND GROOMS SIGN HEALTH CERTIFICATES WILL BOBBED HAIR MAKE BALD WOMEN ? YES! It was announced that Mr. Macfadden had bought the plant of the old New York Evening Mail, there to publish a tabloid daily newspaper featuring material along the lines of True Stories and Physical Culture. It was understood that this sheetlet, as yet unknown by name, would make no attempt to compete with other Manhattan papers in the presentation of news...
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., the fourth to bear his famous name, is about to undertake a new method of rolling pennies into the Vanderbilt coffers. On Dec. 10 is to appear in the streets of San Francisco the Illustrated Daily Herald, "a tabloid picture newspaper...
...days" and apparently want every man to decipher original Greek manuscripts for himself. A case in point is the making by the Yale Press of a motion picture to cover American history, from its earliest beginnings to the present. This film is labelled with the damning title of "tabloid history"; and the intellectually elite are shocked to contemplate the masses absorbing history or what not without effort or reference to authentic written texts. It is sometimes even argued that such substitutes for real education will eventually supplant the orthodox methods, and that everything will be simplified, condensed and given...