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Personally I think your style of writing is an indication of what is coming in the future. Pictures are becoming popular. Writers will devise a new style to offset this popularity in newspapers. Your paper is simply great-everyone on the Telegram staff reads it. It's the only magazine the paper subscribes for! It's as much a newspaper man's magazine as the New York Sun used to be the newspaper man's newspaper. Tell us how you do it all, please...
...years ago there were 2875 Harvard undergraduate applications for tickets to the Dartmouth game, while 7650 graduate applications were received at the office of the Harvard Athletic Association. This fall when Dartmouth came to Cambridge, 3311 undergraduates had filed applications, this increase in students being offset by a decrease in the number of graduates, only 6700 applying...
...establish credits with English and Continental banks of issue. This is the first time since the War that one of the Allies has sold bonds publicly in Germany. Specialty Shops tradesmen of Portland, Ore., individualists catering to individualistic customers, have adopted a program of enlightened co-operation to offset the competition of department stores. Department stores are inherently consolidations of specialty shops, but, depending upon mass sales, they tend to stock only standardized products and to slight the buyer who has personal whims. Portland shopkeepers, who make a point of such individual service and thus attain the fascination...
General Aguinaldo is a warm supporter of Governor General Leonard Wood and his able administration, and because of this wise course Aguinaldo will not only enhance the respect in which he is held by the American people but he will very effectually offset the attacks made upon the Governor General by self-seeking politicos...
...triteness of Jim Tally's plot, exaggerated coarseness of language, superficiality of dialogue, are more than offset by two redeeming features: the authentic note (struck most poignantly when Actor Robeson sings the spiritual, "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child") of the Negro's inability to find himself in complicated mazes of the white world; and Mr. Robeson's personality. His organ-like voice croons, booms in husky, mellow tones filled with all the languor and ebullience of his naive race. In the third act he appears stripped to the buff-an Apollo in black marble...