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...international goodwill. Lawyer Hickin refused to waive immunity, would not tell to what Tammany man he passed on $45.000 shortly after N. G. L. paid his fee. Provoked at Investigator Seabury's failure to "pin anything on the higher-ups" in Tammany, the New York Daily News, saucy tabloid, declared: "Stop spraying everybody with skunk juice and bag us a lion...
...special cable, and printed, a list of New Yorkers whose tickets were drawn. No other Manhattan daily did. Last week the News proudly reprinted from the Times's editorial page a letter from a reader, protesting that he was "forced to look to a tabloid" for the sweepstakes news. Said he: ". . . I know that you have done this by agreement with the Post Office authorities, but let me tell you that Joseph Pulitzer wouldn't have been muzzled in such a fashion." He and many another newsreader argued that the sweepstakes is legal in Ireland and therefore legitimate...
Meanwhile in Manhattan a magistrate dismissed a charge of libel filed in their own behalf by eccentric Stanley Faithfull & wife, parents of the late Starr Faithfull (TIME, June 29), against Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson and Reporter Sidney Sutherland of the tabloid Dally News. But the court did find evidence that the memory of Starr Faithfull had been libeled, offered to hear testimony...
Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' New York Evening Post has long been anything but robust. In the past year its circulation slipped from 102,632 (smallest in Manhattan) to 100,833. Down went its advertising lineage until only Macfadden's tabloid pornographic ranked below it.* The men at the Post have worked valiantly to keep up with their lusty competitors, the Sun and World-Telegram. (Hearst's Journal, "America's Greatest Evening Newspaper," is for a different class of reader.) They advertised heavily the able writings on Russia of Correspondent Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker. They reproduced facsimilies...
...long as Paramount can find plots requiring the services of a hard-boiled; quick spoken character actor, Edward G. Robinson should be walking on air. Gangster, gambler, or, in this case, managing editor of a tabloid, Robinson plays his roles with a rough and ready simplicity that makes the audience forget the screen and follow merely the actions and dialogue of the protagonists. In "Five Star Final" he brings new highs in circulation figures to his tabloid by featuring a scandal of the past which forces the survivors to commit suicide rather than have their shame ruin a daughter...