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...once discernible in the columns of the Digest. Modified was the policy of surveying public opinion through newspaper editorials. Under Editor Draper the Digest published signed contributions on current affairs, staff-written articles based on newspaper news. Here & there Editor Draper whipped up leads to sound like breathless Floyd Gibbons: "This is Chapter 1-in epitome -of the Roosevelt regime. And what a chapter! What a regime!" Beyond these mutations, however, Traditionalist Draper bogged down in Tradition for fair. Circulation, which once had risen close to 1,500,000, dwindled steadily,* to the great dismay of Publisher Robert Joseph Cuddihy...
...Bishops. By the time it reached Copenhagen last Easter, the team had grown to 250, including the Bishop of Finland and many a Scandinavian socialite. The combined weight of big names, the Groups' persuasive message and a good Press left Bergen, Olso and many a smaller town breathless. Said Tidens Tegn: "The mental outlook of the whole country has definitely changed...
...arts are represented, and by specimens which tend to be a persuasive, even if mute, testimony in an age of rampant modernism. In his well-written, though necessarily hurried, and even breathless, survey, Mr. Wickham pauses to inveigh against those modernist critics, who deprecate the masters of yore in order to extol "now a van Gogh, now a Picasso, now a Klee, now a Braque, now a Wadsworth, or now the art of the primitive Negroes or the Seljuka." That kind of criticism is indeed indefensible; one hopes, however, that Mr. Wickham, in his ardor to defend classicism against...
...BREATHLESS MOMENT - The World's Most Sensational News Photos- Knopf...
...power of the film is brought out in these struggles. After more than one hour of emotionally fighting the sea from a plush chair, your reviewer was left somewhat spent and breathless. Yet he enjoyed his fight with the shark, his fearful clinging to the small bear which spun around like a matchstick in a drain, and especially the sensation of rolling in on the tops of the foaming breakers...