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Besides their journalism schools, the two old Joes left behind two able young Joes. In St. Louis, Joseph Pulitzer Jr. runs the Post-Dispatch. In Manhattan, Grandson Joseph Medill Patterson has made a phenomenal success of the tabloid Daily News. Like many another practical newsman of this generation, "Joe" Patterson has little faith in schools of journalism. Last week, after reading the Pulitzer School's announcement, he filled the whole editorial column of his News with a piece entitled "On How Not to Teach Journalism." With it he printed a picture of Columbia's aging President Nicholas Murray...
...funnypapers are potent moneymakers (TIME, Feb. 18). And at the age of 67, the Sage of Emporia has long since learned to compromise. In excellent health last fortnight, Editor White issued the week-end edition of his newspaper with not one but 29 comics in a gaudy 16-page tabloid. Moreover, the entire news section was printed in tabloid to conform. It had taken a brash young salesman for United Feature Syndicate six months to change the White mind but now, reminded of his oldtime vow, Editor White was ready to say: "That was back when I believed in fairies...
...newspaper that covers Dixie like the dew [Atlanta Journal] issues the new Sunday tabloid This Week not instead of, but in addition to their own splendidly edited magazine...
Last week appeared a new kind of publication for youngsters, The Boys' & Girls' Newspaper, a weekly 16-page tabloid to sell for 7?. Boys' & Girls' Newspaper is the latest venture of George J. Hecht, publisher of thumpingly successful Parents' Magazine. From his 300,000 readers of Parents', smart Publisher Hecht got 10,000 charter subscribers for his newspaper in advance, guarantees advertisers a circulation of 100,000. Each "charter subscriber" ($3 a year) gets also a badge and a fancy certificate testifying that he is "forward-looking...
...which he has the late Sir Douglas Haig tap him on the shoulder and inquire: "I say, American, how long do you think this bally war will last?" He admits he lost his entire share of the family estate ($1,903,000) in his ill-advised venture into tabloid publishing. He repeats the story (for which General Smedley D. Butler was afterwards rebuked by the Navy Department for retailing in a public speech) that Mussolini was a hit-&-run driver, asserts that he was in the car when II Duce, going 90 m. p. h. around a sharp curve...