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...Elliott Roosevelt (As He Saw It) had himself a week. On radio's Meet the Press program, two of the men picked to pick on him were Henry J. Taylor and Fulton Lewis Jr., ardent haters of all-things-Roosevelt. Radio listeners heard the preliminary growling and snapping. Tabloid readers got in on the finish...
...Vegas, Nev., precocious Ellsworth ("Sonny") Wisecarver, who won tabloid glory by running off with one mother-of-two when he was 14, another mother-of-two when he was 16 (TIME, Nov. 26, 1945), turned 18 and contemplated settling down. He was looking for a job, said he, so he could marry a friend...
Strachey declined to reply, but last week Manhattan's unco-guid tabloid, PM, ever on the alert for economic injustice, had the answer. In a front-page diagram, PM traced the history of a $7.84 bottle of Scotch from cask to customer, showed that the semiprecious liquid leaves British shores, bottled and labeled, at 97?, reaches U.S. shores at only $1.04. A sizable chunk, $2.32¼, goes into the U.S. Treasury in custom and excise duties; but the biggest slice ($3.14) goes to U.S. retailers...
...That's O.K. by us," grinned New York's irreverent tabloid Daily News, and suggested a postscript to the prayer...
...only two days before the Polish elections-elections so long and carefully rigged that the actual casting of the ballots was anti-climactic (TIME, Jan. 13). That day, Manhattan's tabloid PM made a promise: to "attempt to cut through the charges and countercharges that have surrounded the election campaign, and present ... a clear picture of what's going on." The reporter who got the assignment had left the U.S. only the day before. The correspondent: PM's flim-flamboyant ex-editor Ralph Ingersoll, whose politics are left of leftish...