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...Thursday night dates on a bench in front of the New York public library with her popcorn-chewing reporter friend Peter Dawes (Fred MacMurray). When her true love, Charles Gray (Ray Milland), sails away without revealing his identity as an English lord, the newshawk exposes the romance on his tabloid's front pages, untruthfully dubs Marilyn as a "no-girl" who spurned British title and fortune. With this publicity Marilyn overnight becomes Manhattan's most notorious and highly paid night-club entertainer. Her career leads her to England, to Charles who has grown blase and selfish, and eventually...
Sheean was a good reporter almost from the beginning. He cut his eye teeth on New York's tabloid Daily News, went on to Paris, where Henry Wales made him assistant in the European bureau of the Chicago Tribune. Followed some years of chasing political bigwigs from conference to conference in Europe, and then came the break that made Vincent Sheean a name. The break consisted of an interview with Abd-el-Krim, Riff Chieftain who was making things hot in North Africa. Later, after a second interview with Abd-el-Krim, Sheean became known as the "modern Richard...
This book will provide one more meal of blood & bones for that sector of the U. S. public which feasts on gruesome newspictures. Philip Van Doren Stern hunted high & low through press morgues for the most gushy examples of tabloid journalism. For photographs selected by their death-&-disaster appeal Herbert Asbury has written brief captions to explain the what, why, where, when...
Thus last week Stanley Walker, 36, most famed city editor in the land (TIME, Oct. 22), broke the news that he was going to work for William Randolph Hearst as managing editor of the gaudy tabloid Daily Mirror. To practically all of the Herald Tribune's staff it was a disruptive shock. Stanley Walker had built up the ablest staff of newswriters in the city. They, in turn, fairly idolized him. More than one actually wept into his beer at the prospect of a city room without City Editor Walker. That loyalty was a contributing factor in Stanley Walker...
SINCE 1914-J. H. Landman-Barnes & Noble ($1.50). Handy political handbook of the post-War world, in tabloid size, arrangement, format...