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Flushed with the success of a post-game "Prince" extra that established a journalistic speed record by announcing "TIGERS MEET EQUALS" some minutes before the closing gun, the editors of the Daily Princetonion several hours later brought out another slightly duller resume of Saturday's game. Editors of the CRIMSON, on leave of absence, assisted with the printing of the first edition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fans Offered Choice Of Numerous Extras | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...Even his own paper often finds his comments hard to take, but suffers them because of his circulation-building appeal. Says Mirror Editorial Director Hugh Cudlipp: "Cassandra disagrees with almost everything the Mirror stands for. He is armed with intolerance, bigotry, and irascibility. But the Mirror would be a duller place without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cassandra of the Mirror | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...reason you people steer them there-one college places a full third of its graduates in jobs of that type-is because of our American Puritanical background. If it was hard and dull and didn't pay much, it was good for you, and the harder and duller and littler it paid, the more respectable it must be. I don't agree. There's nothing immoral about getting into the big money. Sophie Tucker said: 'I've been poor and I've been rich. And believe me, rich is best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: There's Nothing Immoral ... | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...cope with these uneducable students, must of necessity neglect the brighter ones . . . The British are far more practical . . . They guarantee every child an elementary education, but at the end of this period they separate the sheep from the goats. The brighter students are sent on to secondary schools; the duller ones are sent to trade schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...next week will probably see one of the smallest voter turnouts in the city's history. Under the Plan A system in which representatives are chosen from the entire city, issues can no longer be personified in the clash between two men. And to make the situation even duller, there will not be a mayoralty race this year to interest voters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schools, Boston and the NBC | 10/30/1953 | See Source »

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