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Like a woman getting up her courage for a new hairdo, Collier's looked in the mirror-and decided to make some changes. The new Look and the Saturday Evening Post, smartened up by Editor Ben Hibbs, were proving far too attractive for Collier's comfort. This week, following an editorial shake-up (TIME, June 7), Collier's underwent a face-lifting and put on a new dress...
...used to do a big mail-order business in pictures, painting just what the customers asked for, but now that her prices have skyrocketed she gets fewer orders. Her early work was framed in old mirror and picture frames that friends found for her in their attics. "But now they take them without frames. I don't like that. It's like sending my children out with ragged dresses on 'em. I like to see 'em dressed before they...
...about whether Teropterin had been used to treat him. They quoted the priest who blessed the Babe ("He died a beautiful death"). They quoted or put quotes into the mouths of moppets who hung around the hospital ("Urchins from nearby brownstone houses and cold-water flats," sniffled the Daily Mirror, "huddled in the dark outside . . . fighting off tears when the news came"). For days, photographers had been carefully posing the children, chin-in-hand and with bat-&-ball props, to illustrate "The Vigil...
...editor of the tabloid New York Daily Mirror was up at 7, to scan his own paper and his opposition over a cup of coffee. He checked in at the office by 9, got up to St. Patrick's in time to cover Babe Ruth's funeral, walked over to the Waldorf-Astoria men's bar for a reminiscent lunch with Mourners Leo Durocher and Mel Ott. Back at the office, he wrote the funeral story (see above), took 35 minutes to peck out a syndicated column that goes to 600 newspapers, and wrestled his first edition...
...years later Lait succeeded Walter Howey, a Chicago contemporary, as editor of the Mirror. Against the toughest competition in the country-the tabloid Daily News-he has doubled the Mirror's circulation (to 1,054,000 daily, 2,206,000 Sunday). Lait's Mirror has one big advantage over all other Hearstpapers: it is the only one that does not have to run Hearst editorials (because the afternoon Journal-American does...