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...readers reached (an estimated 30,000,000 a day), Arthur Brisbane far outstripped any other columnist. No less than 1,200 weekly papers carried his "This Week" contribution. Some 200 dailies beside the Hearstpapers ran "Today." As editor of the Hearst tabloid New York Daily Mirror, Mr. Brisbane turned out eight columns of special editorials a week. And every week in the Sunday Hearstpapers, Pundit Brisbane furnished the text for an illustrated page which dramatized some tremendous, if obvious, thought, or outlined the contents of a classic biography or history...
...sideline to the numbers game has grown up in dream books, which purport to key nightmares to likely digits. The New York Daily Mirror, which is widely read by devotees of the game, has a regular feature cartoon entitled "Pete,'' familiarly known as "Policy Pete." Pete and his friend say nothing about numbers, but innocently and irrelevantly included in the cartoon are two numbers, presumably suggestions for the day's play. Colored pastors often note with regret that after a hymn is announced there is a rustle in the congregation as the number of the hymn...
...these factors are taken into consideration, the opportunity to serve the college does not appear to lie with the "Monthly". It points out, however, that the existing publications are not holding up the mirror to all phases of Harvard life. It suggests that experimentation with controversial subjects might blast away time-honored indifference. The "Guardian", on the other hand, appears to face fewer, but by no means minor difficulties. If either or both can avoid a misdated, shot-gun marriage with older publications, if either or both can overcome the manifold difficulties, and particularly the inertia of students, they deserve...
...Simplicio habitually slept on his right side, Lucio on his left. Thus Lucio's heart had more work to do at night than Simplicio's, a fact which may have contributed to their differences, for being identical twins, product of the same ovum, they should have been mirror images of each other...
...head as they pass over Bishop's Avenue. . . . Ghastly thuds sounded beneath the car as the road wheels rose and fell, but the classic shape of the well-known radiator in front of me scarcely pitched. And watching my rear passengers in the driving mirror, I never once saw them leave their seats; they were merely lifted smoothly up and down, and not much at that...