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...front pages. So, too, for need of a current "master mind of crime," a dullwitted hoodlum named "Bum" Cadman was built up into a king of outlaws. So, too, were girls in the street paid by photographers to sob publicly at the funeral of Cinema-sheik Adolphe Valerino. (Few days before, Editor Peters had sold out an entire edition by the ingenious banner-line: VALERINO DEAD-followed by small type reading: Says Rumor Fortunately Not True...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Editor Bares All | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

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