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...squabble between Eugene Meyer's Washington Post and Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") Patterson's Washington Herald over the right to publish the comic strips Andy Gump, Winnie Winkle, Gasoline Alley, et al. (TIME, July 24) : a temporary injunction restraining the Herald from printing them...
Editrix Hersey announces revival of the Police Gazette in September as a fortnightly. It will be printed in rotogravure with the old masthead. There will be a comic strip narrating the life of a chorus girl named "Flossie Flip" and a Broadway colyum. Besides sport news, it will contain, in Editrix Hersey's carefully chosen words: "Lots of sex, underworld stuff with a sex angle, and plenty of pictures of semi-nude nightclub girls...
Editrix Hersey announces revival of the Police Gazette in September as a fortnightly. It will be printed in rotogravure with the old masthead. There will be a comic strip narrating the life of a chorus girl named "Flossie Flip" and a Broadway colyum. Besides sport news, it will contain, in Editrix Hersey's carefully chosen words: "Lots of sex, underworld stuff with a sex angle, and plenty of pictures of semi-nude nightclub girls...
...lose, a squabble with pontifical Eugene Meyer over a comic strip is precisely the sort of antic that delights publicity-wise "Cissy" Patterson. Her three-year career as editor, during which the Herald has gained 23,000 circulation, has been marked by many another conspicuous exploit. First thing after taking office she promoted and front-paged a quarrel with Alice Roosevelt Longworth, managing to involve also Ruth Hanna McCormick and Idaho's Senator Borah. She published an interview with the Haitian Minister purporting to show that a fort, once captured by General Smedley Butler, did not exist. General Butler...
...Another Tribune comic, "Moon Mullins," last week made things exceptionally difficult for parents who must explain the "funnies" to their children. Said small, tough "Kayo" Mullins: ". . . She called me a illiterate brat." Roared big, tough Moon Mullins: "She did, did she? Here, take your birth certificate over and show...