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...Yale Courant," in defending Yale against the attacks of the "Nassau Misc" which finds fault with the excessive sandiness of the Yale football game, delivers itself of the following: "Sand is no doubt disagreeable to certain individuals, but it is entirely preferable to the concoction of mud, cowardice, and sour grapes which the organs of Princeton, Harvard and their New York satellites make a point of aiming at Yale after every Thanksgiving game...
World reaction was instantaneous. French editors were overjoyed at this highly undiplomatic singling out of Germany as Britain's potential foe. The Netherlands' great Liberal daily, Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, said with a bluntness equal to Mr. Baldwin's: "Has in peace time the Premier or Acting Premier of any Great Power in Europe ever spoken in such terms of another great European power? And it is not a flaming sword but a thoughtful smoldering rage that is the attribute of Baldwin...
...Philadelphia the Hartford Courant was awarded the Francis Wayland Ayer Cup presented annually by N. W. Ayer & Sons for the best newspaper typographical makeup. From among the 1,475 other entries, chosen for honorable mention, were: the New York American, New York Herald Tribune (last year's winner), Newark Evening News, Baltimore Sun, Detroit Free Press...
...Howard, Kan., Tom Thompson, 50 years editor of the Howard Courant, was given a golden jubilee party by Kansas editors. Inspirer of the celebration was Editor Fred Flory of the Howard Citizen. The Courant is the Citizen's rival, but they share one office. For mutual economy Editor Flory prints the Courant on the Citizen press. One window of the office bears the Citizen's name, the other the Courant...
...fast ride." Editor Gauvreau is 39, lean, gimlet-eyed, hardboiled, literate. He walks with a limp, the result of "shellshock" suffered as a youngster when practical jokers set off a Fourth of July cannon under his bed room window. He was schooled on the ultra-conservative Hartford Courant, of which he was managing editor when he went to work for Macfadden. The Mirror had less than 400,000 circulation when he joined it. It has now about 600,000. In September Editor Gauvreau will inaugu rate a Sunday edition to compete with the Sunday News...