Word: progresso
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picture was not always that pleasant for Gene Pope. Born in The Bronx, he edited his father's Italian-language // Progresso before buying the debt-ridden New York Enquirer in 1952 with $75,000 in borrowed money. Pope transformed it from a horse-racing sheet into a gruesome tabloid in order to turn a profit. "I noticed how auto accidents drew crowds," he recalls, "and I decided that if it was blood that interested people, I'd give it to them." In the mid-1960s, however, circulation leveled off, and the number of newsstands and corner candy stores...