The Press: Leader
Last Sunday the people of Manhattan were privileged to welcome a new newspaper—the New York Sunday Leader, price 5c. Those who wondered what the publishers (who also issue a theatrical snicker sheet called Zit's Weekly) intended to do with the paper, and whether they had not been slightly temerarious in their choice of a title, were informed by an editorial that "the Leader's aim is to print all news fearlessly, fairly and without malice." Underneath was a squib censoring Edward W. Browning, "Cinderella man," for "taking little girls in their teens to night clubs." Another editorial asked the public to have more consideration for the underpaid taxi-drivers of New York. The headline across the back page was:
NICK THE GREEK EXPLAINS $750,000 CRAP LOSS
The leading story on the front page was headed:
LIFE EMPTY, DISENCHANTED GIRL SCRAWLS BEFORE LEAP. . . .
With a page devoted to nudities of the stage, moving pictures, audeville, and with three pages of sporting news, the New York Sunday Leader (eight pages in all) was printed on bright pink paper.
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