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...that 85% of U. S. newspapers are "Tory." When told that in a recent poll, 300 out of 800 newspapers showed pro-New Deal, he said he did not believe it. Sitting in on this press conference was Editor-Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the huge, warmly pro-Roosevelt tabloid New York Daily News. The President said he believed Mr. Patterson's paper was the only one with a large circulation that was for him or the New Deal...
Early one day this week, when the chatter about the Hughes flight had dwindled to tabloid speculation over when where or whether Howard Hughes would wed Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, off again was Corrigan, his crate loaded with 320 gallons of gasoline, apparently headed for home to get his nickel back. But instead of heading West, the blind nose of his old ship aimed East, picked up the Lindbergh trail. Year before he had applied for permission to attempt an ocean night, but the Bureau of Air Commerce cracking down on stunt flying, refused...
Same afternoon, in a front-page notice, the Scripps-Howard tabloid News pointed out that its own presses were printing papers telling in minutes and seconds the time of Hughes's arrival in New York six minutes after it happened. Scowled the News: "Now, if the Times was on the street 27 minutes before the News, it must then follow that the Times was telling about the event before it occurred. This is known, in the parlance of poker and questionable duping of the public in journalism, as 'cold decking...
While the home life of "Babs" Hutton made tabloid headlines last week (see p. 16) the genus U. S. Society Girl made another kind of copy. At University of Chicago, sober, 25-year-old Mary Elaine Ogden, no Social Registerite, submitted a learned master's thesis: The Social Orientation of the Society Girl. Miss Ogden, who lives in Waterbury, Conn., made a laborious investigation of how the Society Girl is educated and with what results. Her report is almost as belittling as the magazine confessions of a deb gone commercial...
...wrote gimcrack historical novels and Broadway melodramas. Then he staked a claim on Philadelphia's underworld and immediately struck pay dirt. The minor crooks, racketeers, pickpockets, cardsharps, pimps, stools, finks of Steps Going Down (1936) and Ferment (1937) were as tough as shoe leather, as American as a tabloid. In Signing Off, however, Author McIntyre's claim begins to look as if it were rapidly being worked...