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First photographic news from Spain was of wholesale faking. To keep the world's tabloid editors supplied with gore and excitement, one English agency was supposed to have complete sets of both armies' uniforms, ready to re-enact any battle. Then came the flood of propaganda horror pictures, real but limited photographically. The Spanish war's first honest camera-made reputation belongs to Hungarian Robert Capa (LIFE, Jan. 24). Last week 200 of his photographs, in thoroughly first-rate reproductions, made a glass-clear panorama at Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Among them were...
...Marquessa, who got her first job reporting London air raids during the World War for the tabloid Daily Mail, was in Spain last year covering the Loyalist front for Hearst, and testified that she had been arrested and imprisoned for 43 days in a rat-infested dungeon without being told the charges against her or being given a chance to communicate with consular officials. (The N. Y. Times for Oct. 11, 1936 reports that the charge was espionage...
Grandparent of the labor press is the American Federation of Labor's pedagogical, 44-year-old American Federationist. Two months ago C. I. O. started a national weekly, the $1-a-year tabloid C. I. 0. News. Its editor is Oxonian Len De Caux, who was born in a New Zealand mining town 38 years ago, has worked on many leading U. S. labor papers. In spots where the C. I. O.-A. F. of L. breach has been most serious, C. I. 0. has also started its own local papers. Frank Palmer's People's Press...
Manhattan tabloids shivered deliciously all last week. A bigwig racketeer whom the police had been after for six months had been captured in bed with a red-headed showgirl, which is the sort of story that gives tabloid editors the courage to go on. The racketeer was Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, lawyer for Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer and, since Mr. Flegenheimer's death by violence in 1935, the head of the biggest, crookedest, most profitable racket in the U. S.-the Harlem numbers game. The showgirl was Hope Dare (Rose Ricker), whose chief professional appearance...
After Mr. Dewey gets Dixie, doxie and Weinberg back to Manhattan, tabloid editors expect a trial as spectacular as the trial last year of Charles ("Lucky") Luciano for his prostitute trust...