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...they learned only the barest details of the North Atlantic pact, tabloid readers learned a lot about life's triumphs, travail and heartbreak that readers of the Times and Herald Tribune (which chose to run Tenor Tagliavini's troubles on its music page) often missed in their news...
...price of three sticks of gum, the New Yorker can escape his harried, subway-riding existence and enter the gaudy, slam-bang world of the tabloid Daily News and Mirror. There life can be newsy, glamorous, compassionate and sinful all at once. In Hearst's Mirror one morning last week, millions of readers of a paternity-suit story met a long-lashed brunette...
...tabloid's customers raced on to read about five-year-old Gail Nicoletti, a front-page picture of health (see cut). Her demented father had thrown her and her brother from a 125-ft. bridge, then jumped himself. She had survived, though her mind had become blank. Now, the Daily News reported: MEMORY STIRS...
...Next, tabloid readers paused over the pictures of three sad-eyed youngsters gazing at their bandage-wrapped sister in a hospital bed. Fourteen-year-old Roberta Lee Mason had saved her five brothers and sisters from death when fire destroyed their home in a Chicago suburb. The "fire heroine," said the Mirror, was "wrapped in her white badge of courage...
...Herbert J. Bernhardt, broke into the apartment of his estranged wife, Mary, brandishing a crowbar and followed by five ax-wielding minions, the woman from downstairs screamed, the two babies woke up crying in the back room and the dance instructor dropped his demitasse and fell off his chair." Tabloid readers just had to read to see what happened after the instructor and the demitasse hit the floor...