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Ellsworth ("Sonny Boy") Wisecarver, who started making tabloid headlines at 14 when he ran away from home with an unmarried mother of two (TIME, May 15, 1944), did it again at 16-this time with Mrs. Eleanor Deveny, wife of a Japan-based G.I. After the pair were arrested in Oroville, Calif., Mrs. Deveny said: "I would like to take care of Sonny the rest of my life, and not on a motherly basis." Los Angeles Juvenile Judge A. A. Scott was impressed-"If Ellsworth gets into any more of these jams, he will be the most sought-after...
...Tabloid readers sighed with disappointment : they had been hoping to hear, in all its details and in several different versions, the story of what happened that June night in sedate New Canaan. Others, notably the family of Seaman Kovacs, had a more serious complaint. Imogene had said she fired in self-defense when Kovacs started to beat her. Kovacs' brother, who was sitting with him in a neighbor's house when Mrs. Stevens stormed in and told them to clear out, stuck to his story that she had fired without warning (TIME, July 9). Wasn...
...circulation in its first, precarious years (when it led the Tsar's police an underground chase), Pravda grew to 3,000,000 before World War II. Lately the print order has been around 2,000,000 (about the same as the biggest seller in the U.S., the nationalist tabloid New York Daily News), could easily rise to three times that-if Pravda could only get more paper. Price: 20 kopecks (about...
Mary Astor, 39, cinemactress whose purple diary, involving Playwright George Kaufman (George Washington Slept Here) made top tabloid news in 1936, announced that this winter Chicago Broker Thomas G. Wheelock would become her fourth husband...
Last week two stubborn men came to the parting of the ways. Out as a Hearst editor went rough, tough Lou Ruppel, ex-captain of Marines (TIME, Jan. 15). He had tried to give Hearst's Chicago Herald American the same rowdy tone he had given the tabloid Chicago Times before the war. But the cold, tired old voice that came over the telephone from San Simeon was not pleased, and out blew...