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Unlike most other juvenile journals, Young America, published by a slick-haired, rich young man named Stuart Scheftel, is sold only to boys and girls in junior-high and elementary schools, at 25? for a term of 18 weeks. It looks like a dignified, grownup, twelve-page tabloid newspaper, with plenty of pictures, cartoons, maps, charts...
From Norway, via Britain, one battered copy (dated May 18) of a two-month-old newspaper reached the U. S. last week. It was the first and probably the last issue of a four-page tabloid published by British troops in northern Norway. Name: The Midnight Sun. It consisted mostly of jokes, soldiers' poems, and the farewell to his troops of Major General Pierse Joseph Mackesy, on his way back to England. The most poignant news item: "Good news! Beer...
Manhattan's first new daily in 15 years, afternoon tabloid PM, was one month last week, and its Publisher Ralph Ingersoll celebrated at the Ho Plaza over a tabloid birthday cake a tabloid candle. After PM's one-shakedown cruise, both Publisher and the press in general had a idea of what his paper...
...town newspaper, the four-page, weekly News-Commercial (circulation: 1,350) does not take itself too seriously. Once it printed a list of delinquent subscribers under the head: "Shall the Dead Live Again?" Lately it quipped editorially: "We see ... where they have started a new kind of paper [the tabloid, PM] in New York. No advertisements will be carried in it. There ain't nothing new about that idea-we have been darn near running that kind of paper* for ten years...
...story the characters are carefree debauchees who tinkle champagne glasses to Beethoven's music. Thus Jean Yonnel, as Dimitri Pozdnycheff the irrestible rake, makes eyes at his creditor's wife while that gentleman removes the furniture, and reforms by going home to make love to the country lasses. American tabloid readers can fill in the rest of the plot: true love, questioned virtue, and a scheming horse-faced violinist...