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...developer Benj Clews, even five words are too many. Users submit four-word film reviews to his FWFR.com site--such as "Tense. Intense. In tents" for The Blair Witch Project and "This is Spaniel Tap" for Best in Show. "It's all about the sheer, honest bluntness the format forces," says Clews. But why four words? "Three words never seemed like quite enough," he says. "Five felt like overkill...
...young George Horace Lorimer, who ran the Post for 39 years (1898-1937). Curtis had bought the feeble Post and its 2,222 circulation for $1,000 in 1897. (The logotype then read "Founded A.D. 1821." Curtis, stretching the facts a bit, changed it to "Founded A.D. 1728 by Benj. Franklin." Actually Ben didn't found it, but simply bought a magazine called the Pennsylvania Gazette, which eventually became the Post...
Last month Benj. Franklin was kicked off the cover of the Satevepost for the first time since old Cyrus H. K. Curtis bought it 45 years ago. If old Cyrus turned in his grave then, this week's cover must have brought his amazed ghost stalking into Independence Square. Saturday Evening started to follow Franklin toward limbo, leaving the word Post baldly staring from the cover in unfamiliar type. Neither inside nor out did the once fabulously successful weekly look like its old self...
...BULL and W. B. MOULTON.Best general references: F. A. Walker, Money; J. S. Nicholson, Money and Monetary Problems; E. Benj. Andrews Pol. Sci. Q., VIII, 197-219 (June 1893); E. Suess, Future of Silver; S. D. Horton, Silver in Europe; J. W. Jenks in Amer. Journ. Soc. Sci., XXXII...
...Garcelon, H. A. A. and B. A. A., scratch; S. K. Fenollosa, H. A. A., 8 yds.; H. C. Miller, B. U. A. A., 8 yds.; J. L. Bremer, Jr., H. A. A., 1 yd.; Arthur C. Burr, H. A. A., 12 yds.; Benj. Hurd, Jr., B. A. A., 3 yds.; H. M. Wheelwright...