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...York Mirror was not a good newspaper. When it folded last Wednesday, its 800,000-plus readers switched to the Daily News and hardly felt the loss. Even the man who founded the Mirror, William Randolph Hearst, once telegraphed its editor, "You are now getting out the worst newspaper in the United States...
Still, it was sad when the Mirror died, because it is always sad when a great metropolitan daily disappears. At least the Mirror could have been improved; it had potential, and now that potential is gone. Founding a newspaper is an expensive business these days; when one dies, another is not likely to spring up in its place...
...twisted bicycle. A flattened toy gun. A silver corkscrew. A blue-handled screwdriver. A brass hand mirror. A child's pencil case. A green alarm clock. A yellowed baby picture. A small wad of lire. A mattress. A red and black shawl. A lone playing card (the king of clubs). An ancient Olivetti typewriter. A crumpled Fiat. An electric pylon twisted off its concrete base. A church steeple protruding from the mud. Such were the scattered remains of a town called Longarone, which last week was wiped off the face of the earth...
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...Fear. After leaving PM, Goldberg joined the New York Mirror's Sunday magazine section as a girl watcher, interviewing starlets-real, would-be and soiled-so often that a Mirror rule, which limited him to only one byline a day, has forced him to appear under such pseudonyms as Amos Coggins, Gabriel Prevor, Reg Ovington, Jaime Montdor (Spanish-French for Hymie Goldberg), Robert Benevy and Veigh S. Meer-a phonetic rendition of the Yiddish for "Woe is me." Goldberg rarely has trouble cornering subjects. "When they see me come, all fear vanishes," says he. "There is first my distinguished...