Word: tabloided
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Notable at the Whiteman-Philadelphia concerts was a tone poem by Ferde Grofe called Tabloid, scored for orchestra, electric siren, four typewriters, eight revolvers. According to City Editor George Clarke of the New York Mirror, who wrote the program notes, Tabloid had representations of comic-strip characters, a murder, sob sisters and sport writers at work, a whole newspaper going to press. Critics found Composer Grofe's latest work exciting but unmusical, liked best Mr. Whiteman doing good reliable Gershwin. Two nights later the Dell season officially opened, with the audience cheering Beethoven's Eroica as done...
...than a flock of British newshawks descended on Miss Harding, almost got into fist fights with chivalrous passengers who went to her aid, forced her into hysterics long before she reached Liverpool. There she sent Jane ashore separately in disguise, narrowly foiled a fake kidnapping conceived by a British tabloid. Wailed Cinemactress Harding at Belfast: "I'll never permit Jane to go on the stage or act in the films. She is to be educated as a lady...
...credit side, Guildmen pointed to their coherent national organization, to their contracts with the Scripps-Howard Cleveland Press, Publisher Julius David Stern's New York Post and Philadelphia Record, and the huge, tabloid New York Daily News, to the fact that Guild and labor support had kept alive a bitter strike of 25 Milwaukee Guildmen against the Hearstian News since last February. Outside the four founding cities, strong Guilds had grown in Boston, Philadelphia, northern California, St. Louis and Washington, D. C. Chicago was weak, but New York, with 1,551 active Guildmen, was the national tower of moral...
That one was the Hearstian tabloid Daily Mirror, recently put under the direction of Jacquin Leonard ("Jack") Lait, oldtime Hearst thrill-writer. Fortnight ago the Mirror began a six-part daily feature called "Fiorenza's Own Amazing Story." Authorship was credited to "John Fiorenza, as told to David B. Charnay, Mirror staff correspondent." Gist was that the upholsterer's assistant had nourished an unrequited but undiscouraged love for Mrs. Titterton, who had previously rejected his advances, but, as an aspiring writer, had not hesitated to "pump" him for "copy...
...does not ordinarily butt in as a critic of the policies of its contemporaries. But Hearst's fake is so abhorrent it shames the whole newspaper business. It is so dangerous that it can lead to a miscarriage of justice. . . . Where was Publisher William Randolph Hearst while his tabloid was smearing the memory of a dead woman in a faked story...