Word: tabloidism
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...Jane (see cut), the uninhibited comic-stripper who got her start during the war by entrancing British troops, as a sort of Miss Lace without lace or much of anything else. Jane manages to get down to bra and panties at least once a week in London's tabloid Daily Mirror. Fleet Street agrees that she is the only strip that actually boosts a paper's sales. Yet Jane flopped in the U.S. last year: "I'm afraid," said a British syndicate salesman, "that the lady wears too little clothes for your papers...
...lapse did not escape the eye of William Randolph Hearst, who seldom waits for a paper to get into trouble before jacking it up. A fortnight ago, in the wake of the merger of the tabloid Chicago Times with Marshall Field's Sun (TIME, Aug. 4), a shakeup hit the Herald's top brass. Chicago-trained, cigar-chomping George Ashley De Witt came on from Washington as executive editor-the job once held by loud Lou Ruppel, who got in bad with the Chief by branding Chicago "Dirty Shirt Town." Drawling Lou Shainmark came back from the Washington...
Senator Owen Brewster of Maine is holding high his torch, attempting to illuminate the sex, sin and Scotch with which he claims Howard Hughes and his press agent Johnny Meyer enticed a willing Elliott Roosevelt into handing them a juicy war contract. Pin-up addicts, tabloid readers, and desk bound Washingtonians should be duly grately to the Senator for bringing a spot of joy to dull summer routines. The sex-saturated poses of the scarcely clad "Wham Girl" that have enlivened newspapers and magazines are better than Saturday night at the Old Howard; and Hughes' picture, showing him haggard...
Marshall Field, who has money to burn, was in a buying mood again. Last week, jingling a pocketful of change, he went shopping for a second Chicago newspaper. He put a $5,339,000 check in the bank and invited the 488 stockholders of the tabloid Chicago Times to come & get it. He was offering $60 a share for stock that was quoted...
...could have bought the Times for a fourth as much money (around $15 a share) at the time he started the Sun: "I was thinking in terms of a full-size newspaper then. Maybe it was dumb of me. Now I've changed my mind. I think the tabloid is the coming thing...