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Rough, Tough. Chicago has seen Ruppel's brand of slambang journalism before. Between 1935 and 1938 he doubled the circulation of the tabloid Times by such arresting noises. (In fact, his latest outburst was a tried-&-true Ruppel trick: a Times headline once blazoned: CHICAGO HAS A DIRTY NECK.) In his Times days, Ruppel got a hospital-bed picture by disguising photographers as clergymen, used a siren-screaming ambulance to rush World Series photographs to the engravers...
Last week in court Miss Berry, 24, had obviously become articulate. She had accused Charlie Chaplin of having fathered her 14-month-old illegitimate daughter, Carol Ann, during a night in December 1942. A fascinated seven-woman, five-man jury-and hundreds of thousands of tabloid readers throughout the U.S.-got the kind of profane love story that the Hays office has not allowed Hollywood to film for years...
...Rock Springs, Wyo. in 1900, Florabel roughed out a semi-frontier childhood with ten brothers and sisters. After graduation from the University of Washington, she tried schoolteaching, dropped it for reporting. The newspaper circuit took her to the Chicago Herald-Examiner, the now extinct San Francisco Journal, the tabloid New York Daily News, then back to Los Angeles...
...tabloid New York Daily News's "Presidential Battle Page," offering the Democratic and Republican parties equal campaign space in side-by-side columns, was a top feature. Three weeks ago the Daily News started the page again, as usual saying the lid was off, and asking only that combatants accompany libelous material with an indemnity bond. For 17 days the battle raged...
Chicago's afternoon tabloid, the breezy, crusading, pro-Roosevelt Times, celebrated its 15th birthday last week by announcing that it had topped the Chicago Daily News in circulation for the first time (429,319 to 427,621 daily average in August). It also celebrated by gleefully reviving a triumph over its archfoe, Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune...