My all time favorite newspaper headline appeared in the long-gone Philadelphia Journal, a sports-oriented tabloid that could best be described as a cross between the Philly Daily News and one of the colorful, scandalous London Fleet Street papers.
The story was on an economist from the University of Pennsylvania winning the Nobel Prize. It appeared during the run-up to the Phillies winning the 1980 World Series. The headline: “Phils fan nabs Nobel.”
I love the idea as a Nobel Prize as something one can “nab.”
Anyway, the Daily News, of course very Phils-oriented right now, came up almost as big in today’s paper: “Murder count keeps N.J. nurse from seeing a lot of Phils games.”
What really sucks about murder is, of course, the inconvenience.
