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...Wagnalls had suspected the newsdealer was playing a joke on them, they might have hurried to the Digest office and seen copies of this week's issue which sported no cover photograph but a caricature - of Budget Director Lewis W. Douglas by famed Cuban Artist Massaguer. The new format of the Digest is technically the work of its new editor, able Arthur Stimson Draper, longtime correspondent and assistant editor of the New York Herald Tribune (TIME. May 22). But the enterprise of breaking moth-eaten tradition is that of the man who made the tradition famous, Robert Joseph Cuddihy...
...newsstands have lately been enriched by the appearance of a new weekly, Polity, similar to the Forum in format, reminiscent of the Nation in editorial policy, and emanating from Chicago. At present, in its seventh issue, Polity can boast of no more than sixteen pages, but it is distinguished by an alert point of view and a tincture of intelligent cynicism which should go far toward tempting success...
...nice and necessary gesture on the back flyleaf "the author joins with the publishers in congratulating S. A. Jacobs; who designed the format of Eimi, solved all technical problems connected with the typesetting and printing, and from start to finish personally supervised this book's production...
Since each item is the work of an individual press, variety is the keynote of the whole, and there are several instances of remarkable ingenuity in the adaption of format and typographic technique to the spirit of the text. The rendering of Lawrence Wroth's capable essay on Juan Ortiz, the first wood engraver to practice his are on the American continent, by the Southworth. Press is particularly apt in this respect...
Easily out-pointing the Varsity fencing team 18 to 4. in a match at the indoor Athletic Building on Saturday a group of graduate starts succeeded in taking all but four contests. The Varsity is expected to fare better m their first format match against the Rational Fencers' Club, to be held in Cambridge next Saturday, although the loss of one of their experienced members J. G. Burd s6 now on probation is sorely felt...