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...fancy...and so forth, while the college newspaper turns to the inevitable parody issue. It makes little difference what the occasion as long as the yellow, pink or green sheet gets off the press with the necessary expose of the college professor, the campus character and the appropriate chit chat that supports...
Back to England, a month ago, sailed a gossipy-garrulous young Britisher named Beverley Nichols. For some time he had been selling his books and lectures of familiar chit-chat about the world's Great and Near-Great, to the fame-hungry US. public. For four months he had edited a monthly smartchart called the American Sketch for Doubleday, Doran & Co. (TIME, Dec. 17). Upon leaving he told people that he was bored with the American Sketch and had decided to go home and pick up more chit-chat to put into more books for more money. Doubleday, Doran...
...Ferguson family was Mom Ferguson, a dowdy, cynical scold. Impelled by her stupid and melancholy faultfinding, her two daughters and son rebelled by getting married. Before they did so, one of the daughters stole dresses in the store where she worked and the son made love to a rural chit over his prize-winning plans for a bridge...
...Nichols, careless in the matter of quotation marks, felt that what the President actually said about art required an Oxonian polish. In any case, this unparalleled abuse of an interviewer's privilege did not prevent Doubleday Doran & Co. from inviting Mr. Nichols to edit their American Sketch (society chit-chat). New here, Mr. Nichols has doubtless been informed that it is not customary in the U. S. to exploit the President...
Died. H. Gordon Duval, 35, publisher of The Club-Fellow (social chit-chat weekly); in Manhattan