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Behind London's Fleet Street, off bombed-out Fetter Lane, stands a terraced architectural absurdity known as Geraldine House. It is the home of the world's first great tabloid-and still its biggest. Every weekday, 3,700,954 London Daily Mirrors pour from the presses of Geraldine House; every weekend they print 4,006,241 Sunday Pictorials. Each Mirror reflects the tabloid wizardry of Humpty-Dumptyish Harry Guy Bartholomew, who is as retiring as his paper is blatant...
Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16 also indicated last night that the "reliable source" of the Boston Record American resignation story was open to suspicion. "Seems to me I'd know something about it if it was coming up," said Bingham. "Frankly, I don't read the tabloid in question very often, anyway," he added...
...Sari Gabor ("Zsazsa") Hilton, emerald-eyed, diamond-bright Miss Hungary of 1936, estranged wife of Hotelman Conrad Hilton (New York's Plaza, Los Angeles' Town House, Chicago's Palmer House); in the mirrored boudoir of her Manhattan penthouse. Jewel-&-fur-bearing Mrs. Hilton (who once told tabloid reporters that unidentified villains had kept her in "continuous slumber" for six months with mysterious drugs) now reported to police that a tall stranger in a grey suit, fedora, pigskin gloves and dark glasses had tied her and her maid to a love seat and made off with her jewels...
Marshall Field's rival Chicago Sun went tabloid this week, dropped its price a cent, and found a neat answer to a perennial breakfast table question: Who gets the paper? The Sun sports and financial sections were contained in a "pullout," which husbands could take to the office, leaving the rest unmussed for the missus. For suggesting the idea, Sports Editor Dick Hackenberg got a $600 bonus...
Divorced. Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay Bradstreet Whitaker, 33, who once suffered national tabloid fame as the "sterilized heiress"; by her third husband, Mining Operator John Whitaker, 56; after six years; in Reno. Heiress Ann (daughter of Inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt) in 1936 filed a lurid suit (eventually dropped) charging that her mother had had her illegally sterilized...