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...might be a deadly twenty-four hours, but it came in the spring, when one reads of Blue teams only on page ten; the lesser elections blossom perversely in the antumn, and that is the time when football, and only football, should all the mind. Down came the axe; and the corpse of fall rushing lies, neatly truncated, somewhere between Barkness and the Bowl...
Since the last quadrennial conflict, the censure of the public, and in some cases the Senatorial axe, has been the lot of the victor on whose laurels a golden tint predominated. Contributions clinked merrily into the coffers, rarely receiving the close attentions of other than minor attaches, until public sentiment has at last placed the receipt of money as well as its expenditure in the realm of the executive. No longer will the eye of leadership unswervingly be fixed upon the combat-it must often revert to the ammunition...
...reward or memento a chip recently hewn by the active axe of Wilhelm of Doom was presented to each Frankfurter...
TIME'S method of axe-grinding is the most subtle in journalistic history: It is therefore the most powerful and unimpeachable. One does not mind that in so excellent a news-medium. What one does mind is such far-fetched pretensions to the opposite...
...keep intelligent men and women well informed-that is the only axe TIME has to grind."-From the original announcement of TIME, The Weekly Newsmagazine...