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...gossip mills ground out new rumors of Negro violence two days later when a waitress was attacked by a man she did not even identify as a Negro. The next day after a nurse reported that a "burly Negro" had burst into St. Vincent's Hospital and gagged her with an ether-soaked rag. Again, radio and TV stations fanned the fever; a WSPD radio program called The People Speak even broadcast angry bleats from citizens who denounced the Blade for covering up a Negro crime wave. More than 1,500 women registered for judo courses...
...sometimes Democratic New York Times (circ. 623,000), Publisher Reid, then 29, confidently prescribed such bitter potions as brassy circulation-building contests and a mint-green third news section. He cut down on serious news coverage in order to trowel crime and cheesecake across Page One, souped up the gossip columns and, in fact, gave Broadway Gossipist (and onetime pressagent) Hy Gardner a powerful voice in the paper's inner councils...
...completely amazed." White House Press Secretary Jim Hagerty wrote the San Francisco Chronicle, "to read in the Chronicle . . . one of the most scurrilous pieces of gossip that I have ever seen printed. I am sure I do not have to tell you that this is completely false and was either maliciously invented or deliberately planted. Officially and personally, I want to protest the terrible injustice done to both the President and the Vice President...
...cause of Hagerty's rebuke, carried without comment in the pro-Eisenhower Chronicle (circ. 190,045) last week, was a gobbet of gossip in a syndicated column that appears in the Chronicle each Sunday under the head "Confidential Memo," by John J. Miller. The item: "Vice President Nixon is talking behind President Eisenhower's back and saying things that would be considered in the worst taste if ever printed. Perhaps the mildest statement he made at one gathering recently was, 'Sometimes I think he's just a jerk'-meaning Ike, of course...
...circulation drop to have cut its advertising rates this summer; its sales fell 19%. compared with 16.2% for the Journal-American and 18.2% for the tabloid Post (circ. 350,814). The World-Telly has brightened its own financial section with new features, e.g., columns on Wall Street gossip, market letters and mutual funds, and switched Charles G. Haskell from his job as assistant managing editor, to run the business and financial pages. A spokesman denied that the changes were inspired by the Journal's plans, said that his paper's circulation was already recovering beyond expectations and gamely...