Reading the Sunday newspapers was a ritual in most literate New York households. Even those who didn't read too well followed the funnies, which most news dealers put on the top of the paper. In her memoir with recipes, From My Mother's Kitchen, food writer Mimi Sheraton wrote that her middle class Jewish family in Brooklyn had the Brooklyn Eagle, Herald Tribune, News, Journal-American , Mirror and Times delivered on Sunday.
With a circulation in excess of 4-million, the Sunday News was the Sunday morning read of most New Yorkers. The Sunday Mirror was in second place for Walter Winchell, L'il Abner and Joe Palooka, The upper crust read The Sunday Times, considered the most authoritative source of news, and the Herald-Tribune, generally conceded to be more entertaining if not quite as comprehensive and authoritative. Almost every Sunday paper carried a magazine supplement and, except for The Times, a full-color section of comic strips.