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7 unusual facts about New York Daily Mirror


Cornelius Vanderbilt IV

Vanderbilt subsequently went to work as an assistant managing editor of the New York Daily Mirror.

Emily Cheney Neville

After receiving her A.B. from Bryn Mawr, she worked for the New York Daily News and the New York Daily Mirror newspapers.

Kip Rhinelander

According to one article printed in the New York Daily Mirror, the Rhinelanders sent an "agent" to warn the editor of the New Rochelle Standard Star that if the story was printed, there would be "dire punishment".

Lawrence Van Gelder

Among the newspapers for which Van Gelder has worked are the New York Daily Mirror, the New York Journal-American and the World-Journal-Tribune.

Lucy Goes to the Hospital

Numerous stories were published about the sex of the baby, which was kept secret until the episode aired; when Ball actually had a boy as Lucy did in the script, headlines proclaimed "Lucy sticks to script: a boy it is!" (New York Daily Mirror), "TV was right: a boy for Lucille" (New York Daily News), and "What the Script Ordered" (Life Magazine).

New York Daily Mirror

Early on, several bright young writers and photographic journalists joined the Daily Mirror, such as Ring Lardner, Jr., Hy Peskin and the political commentator Drew Pearson.

The Walter Winchell File

The Walter Winchell File is the title of a television crime drama series that initially aired from 1957 to 1958, dramatizing cases from the New York City Police Department that were covered in the New York Daily Mirror.


Pupi Campo

Starting as a dancer to a band at the Eden Concert nightclub, he eventually fronted his own band, which featured at Jack Paar's Morning Show from 1954 to 1956, and he was eventually became dubbed "the rumba maestro" by the New York Daily Mirror.


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