Word: tabloidally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over the entrance to the severely handsome Daily News building in Manhattan is chiseled the following fragment from Abraham Lincoln: HE MADE SO MANY OF THEM. More than 2,000,000 of the common people whom God loved and of whom He made so many read the earthy tabloid produced in this building. Every News executive knows that the inscription is not an empty slogan, for the News has profited and grown because of the publisher's uncommonly sensitive common touch. Its blunt advice to advertisers: Tell it to Sweeney-the Stuyvesants will understand...
...publisher of Rural Progress, a farm monthly edited by Glenn Frank, chairman of the Republican Party's Program Committee. Based on the throw-away theory that the meagre income from cheap paid circulation is not worth the money and effort involved in getting it, the 20-odd-page, tabloid-size Rural Progress is mailed free to some 2,000,000 country homes in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. Theoretically it depends for its income on advertising alone -just as radio does. With the magazine's ledger and journal before it, the Minton Committee made much...
...year round, others appear in the summer. Tilling of the soil is widespread; as a topic of conversation it is universal. It was inevitable that one day from this bucolic Parnassus should come forth an urbane country weekly. This week it came forth: the Connecticut Nutmeg, an 8-page tabloid with no pictures except two large nutmegs on either side of the masthead...
Smart-looking, Idaho-born Inez Callaway, known to the 3,000,000 readers of New York's tabloid Daily News as Nancy Randolph, last week traveled out to her alma mater at Columbia, Mo., to tell the conferees at Missouri University's Annual Journalism Week what it takes to be a Manhattan society reporter...
Favorite college story of tabloid editors is the one called "Sex Orgies." This week two women journalists expanded the story into a book, * called it a report on "the sex mores of our younger generation." Dorothy Dunbar Bromley is a columnist for Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram, Florence Haxton Britten a former staff member of the New Republic and Hearst's International. To find out what U. S. youth thinks and does about Sex, these two married women interviewed and probed with questionnaires 1,364 men & women students in 46 colleges and universities. They avoided...