Word: tabloidism
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While a torrent of gold poured in through his magazines, Publisher Bernarr Macfadden could afford to ignore the rivulets which trickled out through his unprofitable Manhattan tabloid Evening Graphic. But Macfadden Publications Inc.. which earned $1,839,000 in 1928, earned only $1,395,000 in 1930.* Few months ago Publisher Macfadden, for the first time, turned his personal attention to the Graphic, which has never made money since he started...
...adorn the front page of the Saturday gravure have been supplanted by chaste heads-&-shoulders-in a recent issue those of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Composographs (faked pictures) are permanently outlawed. Photographs of dead bodies must not be "horrible." Fiction serials are still as sexy as those of the average tabloid. Sample title: "The Chastity of Gloria Boyd...
...Coney Island, N. Y., an inquiring reporter of Manhattan's tabloid Sunday News received platitudinous replies to his question, "Have you ever known a person with a broken heart who failed to recover?" until he queried angry, baldheaded, bejowled J. J. Healey, doorman. Said he: "Yes, myself. Years ago a woman broke my heart and ran away. I got a job in front of this museum, knowing that some day she will pass this door, and when she does, I'm going to break...
...years he served that paper as War correspondent on the British front. Next he worked for the Chicago Tribune as "the world's worst copyreader." Manhattan was his goal. He reached it in 1925, frittered away his money on Broadway before looking for a job. When the tabloid Mirror notified him he was hired, he stole an empty milk bottle to raise subway fare to go to work. From the vulgar Mirror Reporter Klein went to the patrician Evening Post where in the next four years his by-line became so familiar that in 1929 the American Press (trade...
Accustomed as tabloid readers are to seeing Sunday magazine articles enriched by reproductions of classic paintings- often of Eves and Bathshebas nuder than Follies beauties-readers of last Sunday's New York Mirror magazine section blinked in bewilderment at the fertile genius of the make-up man who had coupled Painter Jean Francois Millet's famed '"Gleaners" with an article by Kathleen Norris. Substance of Author Norris' article was a complaint that employers are unfair to married women, fill jobs with unmarried women. "Idleness," pleaded the writer, ''and the lack of means of self...