Sunday Mirror editor-in-chief and then editorial director of Mirror Group, where he pushed the daily title, the "Daily Mirror", to a circulation in excess of five million copies. Reflecting strongly prevailing cultural views across the papers across the generations, in 1952, the "Sunday Pictorial" ran a three-part series entitled "Evil Men" promising an "end to the conspiracy of silence" about homosexuality in Britain. "Most people know there are such things – 'pansies' – mincing, effeminate, young men who call themselves queers (...) but simple decent folk regard them as freaks and rarities." The "Sunday Pictorial" compared homosexuality to a "spreading fungus" that
The Sun News-Pictorial the two tabloids in 1925. Murdoch closed the afternoon rival "The Evening Sun". In 1928, Murdoch became managing director of the HWT, by which time "The Sun News-Pictorial" was on its way to becoming Australia's highest-selling newspaper. An early editor, who has been given much of the credit for the paper's success, was (later Sir) Lloyd Dumas. "The Sun News-Pictorial"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s main competitors were the broadsheets, "The Argus" and "The Age". "The Argus" was a morning daily newspaper in Melbourne that had been published since 1846 and was considered to be the general Australian newspaper of record for this period. Widely