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...dailies have been born in Manhattan. All three were tabloid children of rich men, who could afford to spend millions nursing them to maturity. One (Bernarr Macfadden's Evening Graphic) died a-weaning. Two survive: Joseph Medill Patterson's Daily News, William Randolph Hearst's Daily Mirror...
...Manhattan for 20 years, worked most of that time on the Herald Tribune. He loved New York, felt ill at ease in Philadelphia. But his job on the Ledger was welcome. For ever since he had left the Herald Tribune in 1935 to become managing editor of the Mirror, Stanley Walker had been moving about, going mostly down, not up. After six months on the Mirror he had shifted to the American (now defunct), then to The New Yorker, then to the New York Woman (also defunct), then back to the Herald Tribune in 1937. When the Ledger called...
...ching chih yuan;* in Tin Pan Alleyese, When I Get Out, Beloved. Inmate Yun, 27, based his song on a 2,000-year-old Cantonese legend of a separated bride & groom, joined again in old age with the aid of matching halves of a little round mirror each had treasured through the years...
...Literally, "After the mirror having been broken 100 days, [I am] coming to the family homestead." The term "100 days" is used figuratively, to indicate a long time. Inmate Yun's sentence is two to four years...
...design eliminates the necessity for curving the photographic plate by introducing another mirror, a convex spherical mirror onto which the light is reflected immediately before going to the plate...