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...modern Faust" who "did not begrudge payment for the brief period of power granted him." The New York Herald Tribune, ever Republican, saw in Warde striking proof "that civilization is not the product of external rules and compulsions but of individual consent." To Hearst's New York Mirror, the helplessness of the people who watched Warde symbolized ''the numbed futility of the millions of peoples all over the world who pray for a return to sanity...
...only leaving prison regularly to dally with a doxie, but doing so with the connivance of two Manhattan detectives, who, supposedly, were by court order taking him to have his tonsils treated, was the substance of the week's biggest scoop, scored by the New York Mirror (Hearst). Free-Lance Correspondent Robert Chulsky, 21, an employe in a building near where Hope Dare lived, tipped off the Mirror and Photographer Smooke. Day after the Mirror story broke, to the acute embarrassment of District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, other dailies picked it up. New York Herald Tribune headlined: DEWEY...
...month after signing its first contract with a national press association (United Press) and its first contract with a Hearst paper in New York City (Mirror), the Newspaper Guild last week signed a one-year contract with TIME Inc., covering 350 employes of TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE, ARCHITECTURAL FORUM and the MARCHES OF TIME (radio and cinema). Some provisions: five-day, 40-hour week, with equal time off for overtime; severance pay of one and one-half week's peak salary for each six months of service up to a maximum of $5,000. Minimum wages: $20 a week...
...Graphic column such Winchellese as "the stem" (Broadway), "gigglewater" (liquor), "flicker" and "moom pitcher," which meant the same thing. One year after Winchell left the Vaudeville News for the Graphic, the News folded. He was on the Graphic until 1929, and three years after he left it for the Mirror, the Graphic folded too. By that time it was estimated that 200,000 New Yorkers would follow Winchell to any paper to which he might...
...Mirror Winchell became increasingly staccato, informative and readable. He developed the Monday column (sub-headed "This Town of Ours," later "Man About Town") which made a specialty of entertaining and impudent eavesdropping ("Edna St. Vincent Millay, the love poem writer, just bought a new set of store teeth"). He invented "welded," "sealed" and "middle aisled" to mean married, "renovated," "wilted" and "have phffft" for parted or divorced. And a glimmering interest in politics was evidenced in this item printed in September 1932: " 'Sonny' Whitney has dropped the name of Vanderbilt because 'it is incongruous' . . . Sonny also...