Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While oral ballads expressed the animism and mythology of the peasantry, today's ballads can in the same way explore "the wells of mystery bricked over" in our consciousness, Lewis said. He noted America's revival of folk music, and the popularity of comic strips and tabloid newspapers, both of which are similar to ballads in technique and content...
Both Britians and Canadians and regarded the trip with apprehension. "The Queen must not come," warned the Toronto Telegram weeks ago. In London, the Times voiced its alarm that "an innocent life is at stake," while the tabloid Daily Mirror nervously raised "the spectre of a second Dallas." Prime Minister Mike Pearson accurately described such talk as extravagant and extreme. Yet this week Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who can normally expect a warm welcome almost anywhere in the world, begins an eight-day visit to Canada - and no one can be sure of her reception...
...Change. Beginning next month, his byline will appear in the weekend edition of Newsday, the highly successful Long Island tabloid founded in 1940 by the late Alicia Patterson. The new partnership delights both sides. Captain Harry F. Guggenheim, who took charge of Newsday after his wife's death in 1963, has maintained the paper's high rank as one of the largest suburban dailies in the U.S. (present circ. 400,000). Last spring, in an effort to attract new advertisers and reader ship, he attached a Weekly Review to the Saturday paper and began a search for distinguished...
...part of a sensational expose on British racketeering, London's tabloid Sunday Mirror last month thundered on its front page that Scotland Yard was investigating a homosexual relationship between a peer of the realm and a notorious London gangster. The Sunday Mirror and its weekday sister, the Daily Mirror, which repeated the story, named no names, describing the peer only as "a household word." But upon returning from a vacation, Lord Boothby, 64, onetime parliamentary private secretary to Winston Churchill, looked into the Mirrors and in effect screamed: That's me they're talking about...
Blonde & Boat. Raised in London's squalid East End, John Bloom quit school at 16, stumbled from one get-rich scheme to another. In 1958 he finally hit the right chord: he splurged $1,187 on an ad in the tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 5,000,000) offering home washing-machine demonstrations. The ad drew 7,000 replies from prospering Britons-and Bloom soon had a firm set up to sell them. His unorthodox selling and barebone prices quickly cornered 10% of the washer market. Bloom then bought out lifeless Rolls, an old razor maker...