Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boom The World of Paul Slickey, Pelham darkly tabbed it "the show they tried to kill," plastered ads in taxis and in rest rooms of Mayfair restaurants. A four-page tabloid called the Daily Racket (after the paper in the play) sprouted on London newsstands, loaded with barbs aimed at Fleet Streeters. Rebuffed in efforts to hold an opening-night party in a Fleet Street pressroom, he hired the Cock Tavern, a newsmen's hangout, decorated it with signs, copies of the Racket, copy boys, celebrities and drink. (The bottle count: 64 whisky, 55 wine, 46 gin, twelve brandy...
...Theodore O. Thackrey, onetime editor of the New York Post, ran into difficulties with the haulers in his attempt to publish a new tabloid, the left-wing Compass. Referred to an ex-convict (bail jumping, dope peddling) named Irving Bitz, Thackrey paid Bitz $10.000-half what Bitz demanded-for a trouble-free contract with the Deliverers. After collecting the money, Bitz introduced Thackrey to Joseph Simons, then president of the Deliverers' union. The Compass died three years later, but it had no trouble with Simons' union...
...ancestral Lloyd-Jones acres outside Spring Green, Wis. The liaison ended in tragedy when a mad Barbados servant burned down the house, murdered Mamah and her two children. Wright's second marriage, to monocled Sculptress Miriam Noel, wore thin in three years. Soon Wright was in the tabloid headlines again, jailed for crossing state borders with a handsome Montenegrin. Olga (Olgivanna) Lazovich, the woman who later became his third wife...
Editor Nycop hurried. Within 18 months the evening tabloid Expressen rocketed into the black, and it has since come to soothe Publisher Bonnier's nerves as the largest paper in all Scandinavia (circ. 370,000). Expressen is hale because it is hearty. Its formula: a smorgasbord of culture and sensationalism enlivened by flashy picture play and bellowing headlines. Last week, Expressen outdid itself, produced 600,000 copies of a 64-page issue, biggest in Scandinavian history...
...Chicago Painter Ivan Albright and Josephine Medill Patterson, youngest daughter of the late Captain Joe Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News. Alice's Aunt Alicia Patterson, 52 (TIME Cover, Sept. 13, 1954), is 'the editor and publisher of Long Island's moneymaking, fast-growing tabloid Newsday (circ. 288,483). It is to Alice and her brother Joe, 21, a reporter on the Chicago Sun-Times, that Aunt Alicia may hand down important interests in Newsday, the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune...