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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1941
Page
15
Jeanette Smits reports a Colorado man storms the Gazette offices in Times Square demanding editor E Farrell about a burlesque queens contest. A weaponless standoff ends with Miss Farrell defending the on the level contest as the apparition editor explains the outcome and the winner's selection.
Miss Edythe Farrell, 27, edits the Police Gazette and has boosted its circulation from 45,000 to 200,000. She discusses her male readership, her approach to predicting what men want, and her life as editor married to a chemist.
Edythe Farrell, pseudonym, details her ascent from housewife to editor of a famed police themed publication. She and publisher Roswell discuss the Gazette's heyday, including sensational covers and contested ethics, while revealing personal career pivots and memories from the paper’s early days.
A behind the scenes look at a modern magazine patterned on the old Police Gazette. It features theatrical corsets, burlesque images, crime stories, and a society column, with Edythe Farrell steering a revival of the sensational era while tracing the Gazette’s bold history and its dramatic battles with gamblers, gangs, and bankruptcy.
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