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...heights he could not otherwise reach. (Countered Uelses: "Let Bragg do the talking. I'll do the vaulting.") An official of the International Amateur Athletic Federation darkly hinted that world records set with fiber-glass poles might be disallowed. Sportswriters compared vaulting's "lively pole" to baseball's "lively ball." Asked Columnist Arthur Daley of the New York' Times: "Is it cricket?" The World-Telegram and Sun's Joe Williams had an ambiguous answer: "The fiber-glass pole is as legitimate as a zip gun in a rumble...
...actual score among the daily critics when they reviewed Subways Are for Sleeping was three negatives (Kerr, Taubman, and John McClain of the Journal-American) against three positives (Watts, Chapman, and Robert Coleman of the Mirror), with the World-Telegram's Norman Nadel hanging in the air. Said the real Kerr: "Limp." Quoth the real Taubman: "Stumbles as if suffering from somnambulism...dull and vapid...
Monopoly on Merit. "This town can't support seven newspapers," says New York Newspaper Broker Vincent J. Manno. "If you added all seven together, you wouldn't come out with a net profit of $2,000,000 a year." To Scripps-Howard's Roy Howard (World-Telegram & Sun) and William Randolph Hearst Jr. (Journal-American, Mirror), the cost of keeping their papers going is worth it just for having New York as a prestige outlet for their chains...
...poor morning papers delivered in the afternoon. Every afternoon paper in New York is written out of the Times and the News-though they do pick up slightly as the day goes on." Now and then, one of the evening dailies bestirs itself to launch a crusade, e.g., the World-Telegram's recent series on slum landlords and university-student cheating. But such enterprise is rare. More characteristic is the Post's current serialization of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe's famed igth century sermon on the evils of segregation. When Publisher Schiff proposed...
...invincible distribution problems (their delivery trucks must roll during rush-hour traffic), of bad time breaks at deadline, of stern suburban competition (41 afternoon suburban dailies in the New York area against only twelve morning suburbans), and of the sheer cussedness of the New York commuter. Says the World-Telegram's Managing Editor Wesley First peevishly: "If people read the morning papers going to work in the morning, why don't they all read afternoon papers on the way home...