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...Hutton's huge private-elevator penthouse at No. 2 East 92nd St. were in Mrs. Hutton's capable hands. Few days before Mrs. Hutton managed to squeeze in the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Marjorie Post Hutton Free Food Station from which derives her tabloid title of "Lady Bountiful of Hell's Kitchen." Featured was a personality contest for girls, the winner receiving a big Hutton doll and a big Hutton kiss. Then the girls sang Mrs. Hutton a song ending...
...only as a horrible warning to others, most newspapers have soft-pedaled electrocutions. Newshawks, many of whom leave a death chamber retching, rarely report such details as the victim's mouth foaming, hair burning, flesh giving off sparks. Exception was the Ruth Snyder execution in 1928, when the tabloid New York Daily News attained a U. S. circulation record of 1,556,000 by front-paging a photograph of the husband-killer in the electric chair. That picture, called by Editor & Publisher "the most sensational ever seen in America's press," was obtained by Photographer Tom Howard...
...When the strike occurred, hard-boiled Sherman Hoar Bowles, owner of all four Springfield newspapers, published them in typewritten form until he could get strikebreakers on the job. After four weeks on the picket line, the strikers scraped together enough money to launch the Journal, a 16-page, 2? tabloid full of local news. Two unemployed newshawks helped them. Local merchants, theatres, lunchrooms, liquor stores bought liberal advertising space. Press run: 20,000. All proceeds went to the Typographical Union for strike benefits...
Thus last week Walter Howey tossed aside the news that he had been called in to doctor the New York Mirror, sick Hearst tabloid. There was a polite little announcement by General Director Arthur Brisbane, who dug down in his bag of trick titles, pulled one out marked "news adviser" for Walter Howey. But what Director Brisbane did not say about "News Adviser" Howey would fill a bang-up book, had already tilled a feverish play, The Front Page. For Walter Howey is the man Playwrights Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur had in mind when they presented the character Walter Burns...
...recent years Editor Howey helped start the New York Mirror (TIME, Nov. 26), put the tabloid Boston Record firmly on its feet, upping circulation from 197,000 to 320,000, made a great deal of money in the stockmarket, took charge of Hearst's International News Photo Service. In the picture business Walter Howey shows his most surprising side. The books on his desk bear such titles as Solvents, Elements of Physical Chemistry, Colloidal Behavior, The Selenium Cell. Much of his time he spends on the seventh floor of the Mirror Building, behind a door marked "International Research Laboratories...