Word: tabloidism
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Finally one of them turned on the new Denverites. "Mrs. Molly Mayfield," whose breezy lovelorn column is the top feature in Scripps-Howard's tabloid Rocky Mountain News, had received a chiding note from the wife of an Eastern oilman. "When Denver women speak," it sniffed, "it sounds to me like the grinding of a buzz saw. Their voices are harsh and grating. They send shivers up my spine. Even those who have gone to such good Eastern schools as Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Smith, etc., speak in an absolutely rude and unrefined manner...
...York masses are reached by the Hearst papers . . . and by the News, the phenomenally successful tabloid, all of which reflect the Midwestern and Western origin of their publishers...
Born. To Jinx Falkenburg, 27, radio & film actress (Two Latins from Manhattan Cover Girl), and John Reagan ("Tex") McCrary, 35, Horatio Algerish man-about-town, ex-chief editorial writer of Hearst's tabloid New York Daily Mirror, who stars with his wife on the radio program "Hi Jinx": their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Patrick. Weight...
Then New York's enterprising, tabloid Daily News heaped confusion on Andy May's towering embarrassment-with a lavish display of photographs from the wedding of Murray Garsson's daughter. Though May had denied any close connections with the Garssons, he turned up big as life in a picture, beaming broadly in the embrace of the bride's sister...
...York's tabloid Daily News splashed it on Page One: TRUMAN ASKS 4 JUSTICES TO QUIT. In Washington, Cissie Patterson's sister paper, the Times-Herald, gave it a black bannerline buildup. It was one of the biggest news stories of the year-if true. Never in U.S. history had a President told Supreme Court justices to get out. The story even named the four justices: Black, Jackson, Frankfurter and Murphy. To devoted News and Times-Herald readers, it looked like the straight dope. To newsmen, it did not: the "scoop" was signed by poison-penman Columnist John...