Word: tabloidally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...symphony form, but in the meantime I am going on trying to describe America in music." The America of Ferde Grofe (pronounced Ferdy GroFay), plump onetime arranger for Paul Whiteman and for the past five years a highly successful semi-classical musician on his own, is bounded by Manhattan (Tabloid Suite), New Orleans (Mardi Gras), Hollywood (Hollywood Suite). It includes scenic wonders (Grand Canyon Suite} and clanging industry (Symphony in Steel). Last week a Carnegie Hall audience heard all these works played by a 40-piece orchestra headed by the composer in his debut as a concert conductor...
Last week Washington saw Vol. I, No. 1 of a new newspaper called the Capitol Daily. In clear and careful detail, the tabloid-size sheet told of legislative doings in the upper & lower Houses of Congress. "What the Senate Did Yesterday" and ''What the House Did Yesterday," were boxed heads on Page One. Inside the Capitol Daily, proposed legislation was tabulated, smaller Congressional stories ran under one-column heads...
FITTINGLY and reciprocally enough, it is a Yale coach who has published the first book of import on the principles of squash since Harry Cowles' tabloid text, "The Art of Squash Racquets". Formerly assistant coach at Princeton, John Skillman is not only an expert teacher at the game, but also an active and expert player. In the past four years he has won the national professional championship twice, and was a tenacious runner-up in the other...
Captions under these pictorial features were written with an elementary terseness not unlike the style of the late great Arthur Brisbane (TIME, Jan. 4). Resulting journalistic tone throughout Look was reminiscent of the Hearst Sunday supplements, also of Bernarr Macfadden's dizzy, long-dead tabloid New York Evening Graphic...
...Press. In annual salary ($260,000), and in readers reached (an estimated 30,000,000 a day), Arthur Brisbane far outstripped any other columnist. No less than 1,200 weekly papers carried his "This Week" contribution. Some 200 dailies beside the Hearstpapers ran "Today." As editor of the Hearst tabloid New York Daily Mirror, Mr. Brisbane turned out eight columns of special editorials a week. And every week in the Sunday Hearstpapers, Pundit Brisbane furnished the text for an illustrated page which dramatized some tremendous, if obvious, thought, or outlined the contents of a classic biography or history...