The Home Edition

In the Home Edition feature stories, mostly about crimes, stood in for the breaking news of the later editions. Page one of this edition included a pin-up shot of actress Marjorie Woodworth, touted as the new Jean Harlow, and according to the caption, about to be married. Despite a big build-up from Hal Roach, the shapely actress never caught on with moviegoers. Also on the front page was a PR shot of Will Rogers Jr. setting up a tent in Los Angeles supposedly in preparation for his run as the Democratic candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from California (he lost). Another photo showed the University of Wisconsin crew at practice.

Inside, an AP feature story presented the plight of a stateless Jew living in Germany and encountering continued anti-Semitism. In another story from AP, Leo Gruliow, of the American Society for Russian Relief reported back from a recent visit to the Soviet Union where he said the continued struggle for survival in the war-ravaged country had caused an epidemic of "mental breakdowns." There were more than 800,000 amputees in the country as a result of the war. Gruliow was a journalist and prominent translator. A UP story reported that the populace of Rome was smiling again now that conditions were improving.

Actor Craig Reynolds is shown with his wife and son. According to the captions the actor, who suffered a leg injury at Guadalcanal, had decided to give up on his Hollywood career to find more lucrative employment to support his family. (Reynolds, who seemed to have had a greater presence in the gossip columns and fan magazines than in movies, suffered a number of postwar setbacks, including a divorce, before his death in 1949 from injuries sustained in a traffic accident) .

One of the juiciest stories involved a woman who shot her husband in the belly after following him and the teenager he had picked up home from a bar. Another story told of an outraged wife who stages a raid to catch her husband with another woman.

A Q&A column, "Let's Explore Your Mind," appeared in that day's home edition. While the Sunday Mirror final newsstand edition carried Dan Parker's pennant predictions, the Home edition had an alternate version of his column, "The Broadway Bugle,' devoted to boxing and horse racing items.

The back page of this edition had a photo of Emil F. Sorrento of Astoria, Queens, winner of the Champagne Hour dance contest at the Sheraton Hotel in Manhattan, despite being legally blind. He was shown wearing dark glasses and accompanied by his contest partner, Boots De Brussey. Champagne Hours were popular competitions in which dance instructors or professional dance teams taught steps and the student who performed them best was declared the contest winner.

The Home edition carried a five page Parcel Post Business section made up of mostly small ads for mail order merchandise of all kinds. One of the items prominently advertised was an "Army officer's" cap pistol that looked like a .45 repeating automatic, "the ideal toy for boys" in the words of the ad. It also had an extra dose of ads for asthma, piles and pimple medications, hair removal products, get rich quick schemes and diets. One advertiser offered to make a life-size statue of laminate from any snapshot or negative you supplied.