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...Clean humor...
...Dana Gibson, president of Life, E. S. Martin '77, Life's Editorial writer and one of the first editors of the Lampoon, and Oliver Herford; all of whose suggestions would seem worthy of the weightiest considerations" explained Nichols. "These men seemed satisfied that the Lampoon had maintained a fairly clean standard of humor, but that frequently there had been noticeable deviations. They felt that the only way was to be thoroughly consistant in the policy and not to permit a half-way reform. Yet it is not so much a question of reform as one of raising the standard...
Connie Goes Home. Edward Childs Carpenter, notable in the past chiefly for The Cinderellla Man, has here concocted a floating-island comedy. It is very clean, very light, completely surrounded by custard seas of sentiment...
Henry Ford: "Funk and Wagnalls published a biography of me by Allen L. Benson, once Socialist candidate for President. The author credits me with stating to him in Sept., 1922, that there would be another World War; that the U. S. should ' get into it at the beginning and clean them all up'; that the sudden cessation of my anti-Jew campaign was due to my sensing 'too much anti-semitic feeling.' Mr. Benson also says that apropos of nothing I pointed to one of my men and said: There is the kind of man I would appoint Secretary...
...justly claim that he is America's favorite author. As a literary phenomenon, he is astounding. Why has he succeeded so vastly? In the first place, he tells a story, and nearly always an old enough one so as not to unduly tax the public brain. His books are clean, his heroines beautiful and virtuous, his villains black as sin. Each of his books contains a moral idea. He writes badly, but directly. He is sincere?he uses his cliches as if no one had used them before. And he is completely and happily impervious to criticism...