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...harsh heat of Cairo International Airport last year, a Chinese-American traveler idly watched a scrawny Egyptian newsboy. The boy got nowhere with his tabloid sheet. But when Richard C. Kao of Los Angeles saw the boy snatch a piece of bread from a restaurant table, Kao decided that he wanted a newspaper. He offered a ?5 note, his smallest bill. The boy quickly fetched the change. Counting it, Kao discovered that he had got his paper free. It was simple enough, the boy explained. The slender man "with the kind face" had only a ?5 note; he must...
Cowles will leave direct supervision to Editor-Publisher William J. Dorvillier, 51, a Massachusetts-born journalist, who in 1953 started a weekly newsletter in San Juan for businessmen interested in the island. The tabloid Star will be printed six days a week on the presses of El Impartial, San Juan's second Spanish daily, will be aimed more at English-speaking residents than tourists. Hoped-for circulation: 15,000 in eight months...
...U.P.I.'s grief was nothing compared to the tabloid New York Mirror's gaffe. Relying on the advance briefing, the Mirror assumed that the raid had run according to form, made it the banner story (lOO POLICE RAID B'KLYN VICE DENS), and hit the street next morning playing the farce for fact...
...boom The World of Paul Slickey, Pelham darkly tabbed it "the show they tried to kill," plastered ads in taxis and in rest rooms of Mayfair restaurants. A four-page tabloid called the Daily Racket (after the paper in the play) sprouted on London newsstands, loaded with barbs aimed at Fleet Streeters. Rebuffed in efforts to hold an opening-night party in a Fleet Street pressroom, he hired the Cock Tavern, a newsmen's hangout, decorated it with signs, copies of the Racket, copy boys, celebrities and drink. (The bottle count: 64 whisky, 55 wine, 46 gin, twelve brandy...
...Theodore O. Thackrey, onetime editor of the New York Post, ran into difficulties with the haulers in his attempt to publish a new tabloid, the left-wing Compass. Referred to an ex-convict (bail jumping, dope peddling) named Irving Bitz, Thackrey paid Bitz $10.000-half what Bitz demanded-for a trouble-free contract with the Deliverers. After collecting the money, Bitz introduced Thackrey to Joseph Simons, then president of the Deliverers' union. The Compass died three years later, but it had no trouble with Simons' union...