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Paralyzed but undaunted, the Watch and Ward is planning to plug up the loophole in Boston's moral strait-jacket by introducing legislation restraining the newspapers. The Hearst syndicate counters neatly by a campaign against obscene literature to prove that it is on the right side. For this sop they are told to "clean their own house" and the battle goes merrily on while the newspapers' circulation climbs. Whatever the reason for the inability of sober-minded Boston to cope with the greatest lack in its society, the opposing factions seem to have split the pie. Bostonians now get murder...
Although 30 envelopes remained unclaimed during the early rush Thursday and Friday, Registrar Sergeant Kennedy '28 foresaw enough returnees, plus newcomers registering to plug the gap left by the graduation of approximately 400 Seniors...
...gone. . . . Ok, won't that be joyful, joyful, joyful, Oh, that will be joyful, when his peanuts are gone. There were many variations on the same theme, e.g.: When his John Wanamaker's endurable, reversible, sit-on-'em and mash 'em, patent restorable, operatic plug hats are gone...
...conventional radio, some 125 Washingtonians* put up $100,000 for a "station for intelligent listeners," hired FCC analyst Edward Brecher (who helped put together the FCC's famed "Blue Book") to run the show. Last week station WQQW began broadcasting according to its owners' lights: ¶ No plug-uglies or singing commercials; only four one-minute commercials an hour (says Manager Brecher: "We believe that a listener is entitled to a program after every commercial...
...political crosshatcher, John T. McCutcheon, was his ideal. Milt's, father took him west in 1916 and nine-year-old Milton worked for a short time as a child extra in two-reel movies. At twelve he created (for family circulation) his first cartoon, something known as Si Plug...