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...practical problem. Said Edward T. Leech, editor of the Pittsburgh Press: "If we were to slant our news on the optimism or pessimism basis, we would then be propaganda sheets." Said Erwin D. Canham, managing editor of the Christian Science Monitor: "Headlines should be written [only] to reflect the news as accurately and graphically as possible...
...Plastic trumpets (made of tenite) sound as loudly as brass ones, are truer to pitch because they do not require warming up. The plastic instruments are also easier to blow, featherweight, can be made in any color, require no polishing, can be easily mended. Further, they do not reflect light, hence cannot reveal positions to the enemy. Last week Quartermaster Corps officials looked forward to a plastic age, from trumpets to tubas, in Army bands...
Kaltenborn and his colleagues usually have to go on the air without enough time to reflect, weigh, or wait for more information. Kaltenborn himself predicted that Hitler would not come into power. A few hours before the Wehrmacht smashed into Poland, he still thought that negotiation was a good bet. His expressed views on labor have often been tendentious and shallow in perspective...
Many interesting facts of life are often picked up from fragments of conversation which when fitted together reflect interesting attitudes as a whole. Mr. Block was overheard to say that he would like to have the faculty officers participate in calisthenics with the Senior class some morning...
...Chicago, 500 dealers reflect the same gloom. From the January high, when dealers had a 143-day supply on hand, less than a 60-day supply remains, 40% down from a year ago. On the West Coast, dealers have scraped through the bottom of the barrel. Throughout the country, ancient jalopies, hardly worth a junk price of $10 a few months ago, move quickly at $50 and up. Also setting established dealers to biting their nails are the number of "clean deals" (without trade-ins). The clean deal rate, normally 10 to 15% of sales, has soared...