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1958_0204_mirror

Feb. 4-5, 1958
Los Angeles

Here are some lead sports pages from the Mirror News. This may not seem funny if you don’t work in the news business but to anyone who lays out the paper, what they did with the photo of the ice skater is hilarious. And then there’s the big liquor ad. (Also note the difficulty in reproducing the Mirror pages).

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1958_0205_mirror

And just to top it off, here’s what the Mirror did the next day with the boxing photo. As my friend and colleague Gary Metzker says: "They’re out of control. They are TOTALLY out of control."

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