The Press: Zit's

Names make news and, in some instances, names—even when not printed— make whole publications, notably the papers of the "show business," of Manhattan's Broadway. This intensely personal form of journalism was notably demonstrated last week by Zit's Theatrical Newspaper (commonly known as Zit's Weekly).

A month ago Editor Carl Florian ("Zit") Zittel devoted the entire back page of his paper to the story of a young Manhattan doctor whose showgirl fiancée had gone to Hollywood. The girl had broken her promise of marriage, refused to return the doctor's gift...

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