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...coming 5? tabloid Mirror, which claims its circulation has risen from 161,188 to 193,924 in the last six months, plumped in favor of the ordinance. But Hearst's Herald & Express (circ. 348,543), figuring that the law might cost it some 12,000 daily street sales, denounced the whole thing as just a Mirror plot...
These and other rumors of corruption in government circles have hurt Quirino's prestige. Last week, shortly after Manila's tabloid Star Reporter referred to him as "our beloved President . . . who is growing fat like a pig on public taxes," Quirino showed concern for public opinion and appointed his vigorously critical Vice President, Fernando Lopez, to investigate corruption in the government...
Next day the Boston newspapers almost unanimously shellacked Ted. The Hearst tabloid American went so far as to suggest that he be suspended, concluded its editorial with the reproving observation: "This man is not the great baseball player he thinks he is ... Yesterday he was a little man and, in his ungovernable rage, a dirty little...
...Breakfast Table.") In the Times, bodies are never found "lying in a pool of blood," nor "badly decomposed" in the woods. The Times was net always so squeamish. Ochs once told an editor who complained that a certain story was too smutty for the Times to print: "When a tabloid prints it, that's smut. When the Times prints it, that's sociology...
From Manhattan, the tabloid Daily News recalled with leering glee that the judge had once seen a musical called Wine, Women & Song three times before testifying that a strip-tease dancer had "turned her back . . . and rotated her buttocks." Gossipist Hedda Hopper noted that he was "the guy who made trouble for practically every studio in town" two years ago as the temporary head of the industry's self-censoring production code office. Sniffed Daily Variety: COOL RECEPTION ACCORDED PEEKER AT H'D MORALS...