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Among the lecturers for September are announced: Horace M. Kallen and Everett Dean Martin speaking on the same day from different viewpoints of psychology; Dr. Albert Loyal Crane, of Chicago, on "the unusual child and other fields of applied psychology"; Sinclair Lewis on "literary idiocies"; Bruce Bliven, of the New Republic, on political aspects of the age of jazz, the jazz press, Church and State, wild youth?a gamut of subjects. Herbert Adams Gibbons, journalist-professor, will "do" the Near and Far Easts...
...Bruce Bliven, former managing editor of The New York Globe, former Director of the School of Journalism at the University of Southern California, and contributor to many magazines, is well qualified to discuss the subject of journalism. He does so, in an article titled Our Changing Journalism in The Atlantic Monthly for December. "The public," says Mr. Bliven in effect, "is always asking about newspaper morals. But equally important with newspaper morals is newspaper intelligence. And both of them are changing drastically, dangerously, because of mechanical progress." The telephone and the typewriter have played havoc with journalistic English. High speed...
Last, and perhaps most important of the products of the mechanical revolution in journalism is the multiple ownership of newspapers, by which one man may control newspapers over the entire country. On this matter, Mr. Bliven can speak with especial poignancy, for he joined the staff of the Globe in 1919, and was its managing editor last May when Frank A. Munsey amalgamated it into his group of Manhattan journals. Says Mr. Bliven...
...Bruce Bliven has joined the editorial board of The New Republic. After acquiring considerable reputation as a journalist in California, he came to New York in 1920 to take the position of Managing Editor of The Globe...
Married: Martha Miller, 24, author and sculptress, who accompanied the Carl Akeley expedition to Africa in 1921, and Albert L. Bliven, 25, in New York. They plan a 50,000 mile honeymoon, including lion hunting in the Congo and tiger hunting in India...