Chatty Manchester Boddy, publisher of the Los Angeles Daily News, was busting to tell the news that nearly everybody guessed (TIME, July 19). In a Page One editorial he spilled it: "We don't like to scoop the dear old lady of First and Spring on a secret she has so zealously guarded, but . . . on Monday . . . the Los Angeles Times will announce that she is expecting. It will be a spanking new tabloid newspaper, to be born in the afternoon field some time early in October."
Last week the Times crossed him up by one day. What...
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