The Sunday Mirror

The Sunday Mirror was not the place to go for serious in-depth news coverage. People read it for the columns, gossip and funny papers. Advertising was light and generally downscale. Joe Palooka, L'il Abner, Superman and Red Ryder were among the stars of the Mirror's funny papers.

The headline on page one was devoted to the vote in the House suspending the draft, while the photos were of the stone-faced widow of one of the Amsterdam Avenue hotel robbers and of Lana Turner and her new beau.

The Sunday Mirror carried other stories that had appeared that day in the other newspapers, just less of it. Coverage of hard news was light. If a national or international news story ran at all it was generally cut down to one or two paragraphs unless it had a sensational angle like that AP story about the Dutch women running wild in Java after release from Japanese concentration camps or a juicy murder. (See the Sunday News for more on the Java story).

The paper ran photos of various movie stars or socialites who were getting married or divorced, as well as a photo of a black cat and its newborn white kittens, among other human interest shots. A photo showed Ray Shaw, identified as a "famed New York sculptress," putting finishing touches on a sculpture of Margaret Truman's hands. Shaw had a minor celebrity at this time for her casts of famous people's hands.

It had a crossword puzzle like most every other newspaper and a sports section. There was a Sunday magazine.

Like most newspapers, the Mirror put out several city editions during the course of a day. Most of the pages below are from the final city edition. In addition to the city editions the Sunday Mirror had a Home edition, with feature stories replacing much of the breaking news, as well as a Brooklyn and Country edition.