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...Home Office mumbled: "Only two persons were seriously injured." To this the Daily Mirror's indignant Columnist Cassandra roared: "Truly the Fascist disease sleeps easily in our bowels...
...their fantastic, nightmarish extreme U.S. tabloids never surpassed the strange journalism of Macfadden's late Graphic and Hearst's early Mirror under the editorship of Emile Gauvreau, a brilliant, unhappy, sensitive, tough, crippled. French-Canadian-Irish, Connecticut-born newspaperman who now raises goats and chickens on a small farm near Philadelphia...
...From the Graphic, Gauvreau was hired by Hearst's fabulous Albert J. Kobler, publisher of the Mirror then founded to beat Captain Patterson's Daily News. Kob ler was "a well-read, intelligent man" who talked like Sam Goldwyn. ("This tabloid business is not all rag, tag and cocktail.") After making millions for Hearst, he died with less than...
...Hearst picked Brisbane to push Mirror circulation to a million. Unable to do so, he ruthlessly cut expenses, rhapsodized over successmen, dictated editorials at the rate of 39 in three hours...
...Conceiving a phobia against Mickey Mouse, Brisbane wanted it thrown out, said it was humorless, a waste of space. When Gauvreau balked, Brisbane roared: "Children can be better occupied reading Sir James Jeans about the world we live in. Throw that rat out!" Too old for Mirror journalism, Brisbane one day received a wire from San Simeon: "Dear Arthur, you are now getting out the worst news paper in the United States...