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...while crammed with columns and features, including a recent series on group sex. Wendt characterizes his tabloid as "a compact" because it is both small in size and short on space. He argues that afternoon audiences are distracted at home by TV, the kids and household chores. "The evening reader doesn't have all night," he says. "We're attempting to get the maximum amount of information into the minimum amount of space, while providing enough facts to satisfy an intelligent reader." The formula has pulled readers, but the product is uneven. On any given day Today...
...Reader Dr. Gruskin should know [June 28] that you don't differentiate among things, however many there are; you differentiate between them, taking two at a time...
...electric chair. Inevitably they inflict a kind of emotional blackmail on the critical faculty. Legalized killing is a cruel and unusual procedure, so that the condemned, whether guilty or innocent, become miserable victims. Under such circumstances, it takes very little skill to arouse pity and terror in the reader...
...George Westinghouse were noisily disputing the relative merits of direct and alternating current. Kemmler was a convenient guinea pig, and so became the first man ever to be executed by that new scientific wonder, electricity. Calling his hero-victim Rupert Weber to suit his fictional purposes, Davis takes the reader through the last months of Weber's life-his moods and his memories, fears and dreams, and particularly his effect on the prison staff that must deal with...
...letter from a reader [May 31] commented on the fact that your article on Haiti [May 3] had mistakenly defined the Tontons Macoutes as "bogeymen." She was wrong, and your writer was completely correct...