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...eight-page, tabloid-size picture paper, the World is at present the only offset daily in the U. S. With a small bi-weekly as his sole competitor, Editor Fitzgibbon at the end of his first month had a paid circulation of 1,300, plenty of advertising. Using a linotype to set up his copy, he could compete with many a metropolitan newspaper in neatness and variety of makeup. When the World wanted to print an election extra with a special head, Fitzgibbon went around the corner to a department store, made his paste-up head with a stencil, printed...
...takes more than a gleam in a publisher's eye to create a new Metropolitan newspaper. Since 1895 only three big dailies have been born in Manhattan. All three were tabloid children of rich men, who could afford to spend millions nursing them to maturity. One (Bernarr Macfadden's Evening Graphic) died a-weaning. Two survive: Joseph Medill Patterson's Daily News, William Randolph Hearst's Daily Mirror...
Publication date for the new tabloid, tentatively called P.M., has now been tentatively set for June 1. According to Ingersoll's plans, it will carry no advertising for at least two years but will run, as news, a digest of advertisements carried on other Manhattan papers. Managing editor of the paper will be burly, apoplectic George Harry Lyon, onetime city editor of the New York World-Telegram (1929-33), editor of the Buffalo Times until it folded last July. Editor of his own paper will be Ralph McAllister Ingersoll...
...These summaries offer plots and other content in readily identifiable tabloid form, and such critical material as they include is simply are has of well-known secondary material which students will parrot at their own risk...
Died. Henry Stevens, 70, one of the acquitted defendants in the unsolved, tabloid-trumped-up Hall-Mills murder case (1926); of heart disease; in Lavalette, N. J. Two co-defendants survive him : his sister Frances Stevens Hall, widow of the murdered minister, and his lethargic brother Willie, who made a monkey out of cross-examining Attorney Alexander Simpson...