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...writer for Newspaperdom, journalistic trade-sheet, compared newspapers of the West and East, noted differences. He proposed that Eastern editors learn from Westerners: 1) "Greater local pride and booster spirit." (Said he: "The booster spirit of the Far West is familiar to everyone." ) 2) "Greater attention to school news." 3) "Higher subscription prices." That the West learn from the East: 1) "More attention to the man who writes to the papers" (i.e., cinema, sport, health, politics, joke fans.) 2) " Better sporting departments." 3) "Better first pages." 4) "Snappier news and editorial writing." The writer then closed, mellifluously: "Papers everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: East vs. West | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

Sitting on the seashore in Normandy, dangling his feet over a cliff and cursing French pipe tobacco, Christopher Morley (famed colyumist) conceived an idea. He scrawled his pen over a piece of paper and sent it to a friend in the U. S. Said the sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Morley's Quip | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

...Athletically, all mankind is divided into three parts-the agile Americans, the hardy Finns, and the rest. And of these, the Americans are the greatest." -thus the World Spirit, musing over the official score-sheet of the eighth Olympic Games where it lay pinned on the Judges' Desk in Colombes Stadium, Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympiad | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

Secretary Mellon rendered his accounting for the fiscal year ending June 30. For those who like to see an improving balance sheet, the report was a pleasure. It showed a surplus of $505,366,986.31. Never before has the U. S. piled up so great an annual surplus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Apology for Good Tidings | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

...produce. The unexpected, fantastic dream situations lend themselves to some remarkable trick effects, including one in which Buster walks right out of an audience and into a picture on the screen, only to be promptly hurled back into the audience by one of the players acting on the silver sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 2, 1924 | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

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