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...outsider who thinks at random of St. Louis newspapers, the names of the venerable Globe-Democrat or progressive (Pulitzer) Post-Dispatch come to mind. But throughout the past fortnight both great papers were soundly larruped on St. Louis' newstory-of-the-month - possibly its story of the year: the kidnapping and return of 13-year-old Adolphus Busch Orthwein, grandson of famed August A. Busch (TIME, Jan. 12). The sheet that ran away with the story was the loud, energetic St. Louis Star...
...chiefly with the ancients--are worthy of appreciation and the reader's pre-conceived sympathy undergoes no strain. But as things go on and the characters multiply at an alarming rate--there are some 64 of them in all--and the remarks attributed to each become more and-more random the limit set to one's appreciation is reached and, in the last couple of pages, unfortunately passed...
This new policy has engendered a radical change of thought from the formerly conservative and aloof attitude of the authorities. There are random indications that they are not fully convinced of the efficacy of its abandonment. The breaking of the release date by a New York newspaper yesterday of the announcement of changes in the football coaching staff for next year will undoubtedly hinder complete acceptance of the fact that the press should not be ignored. There is a certain amount of justice in the criticism that the H. A. A. was withholding legitimate news for no other reason than...
...Harvard on the Charles were to become another gilded Rome on the Tiber. The simple virginity of the past, as typified by University Hall, is now giving way to the lures of a tawdry future with the Houses. Crimson, blue, yellow, and orange paint is splattered on at random. The new buildings will be pied by day as well as by night...
...pictures (some of them on bed-sheets), made friends with the Eskimos, had a good time generally. In the autumn he went home by way of Denmark. Rockwell Kent's pictures in N by E take up almost as much room as the text; it is a superpicturebook. Random House, makers of limited edi tions, have put out a bargain in their unlimited edition of Moby Dick. With 275 Kent drawings, small, well-designed pages, good paper, fine printing (Lakeside Press), it is a revelation of what a publisher can afford to produce with a book- club membership...