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...music critic of Washington's tabloid Daily News confined himself to a one-sentence review: "Miss Jeanette MacDonald, wearing a shimmering cocktail dress, a six-foot-long fur piece and a hat with feathers, sang at Constitution Hall yesterday...
This pious gravity was not echoed, however, in New York. "Come home, Bill," jeered the tabloid Daily News in a one-line editorial, "nothing is forgiven." City Council President Rudolph Halley said he hoped that O'Dwyer would either come back voluntarily or be brought back to testify on the city scandals. But this was mostly talk. If O'Dwyer chooses to stay in Mexico-as he has strongly indicated he will-he cannot be brought back unless 1) he is charged with a specific crime, and 2) his Mexican friends can be persuaded that it is legally...
...tabloid Los Angeles Mirror and its morning sister the Times like nothing better than a free-swinging Hollywood brawl. Last week the papers got just what they wanted; across Page One the Mirror splashed the headline: BRAWL OVER MARION DAVIES. What was even better, they had a clean beat. The Times and Mirror were tipped off by none other than a friend of onetime Cinemactress Marion Davies herself. Rival Hearst-papers hushed up the story because one of the brawlers was the chain's publisher, William R. Hearst...
...Manhattan's pinko Daily Compass finally folded. Deep in debt, the three-year-old tabloid, lineal descendant of the pinko PM, reached a peak circulation of 54,000 after the start of the Korean war, then slumped to 30,000. The Compass, originally backed by International Harvester heiress Mrs. Emmons Elaine, 86 (TIME. May 16, 1950), was in the red more often than the black. This week the paper's mortgagors and creditors closed in and sold the Compass' fixtures and machinery at auction. Said Editor Ted Thackrey: "We ran out of money. We're through...
...reporter for Long Island's tabloid Newsday (circ. 175,000), young (25), law-abiding Don Kellerman made a proposal that surprised his wife as much as it did his managing editor. Kellerman wanted to get arrested so that he could write a series on "what happens to a youngster in his first clash with the law." This is an old journalistic stunt, but Kellerman had a new twist. Instead of going to jail with the connivance of police, the usual method used by reporters, Kellerman proposed to say nothing to the police, get himself arrested while seemingly committing...