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...thing, 14 Plympton St. has mice. Mice are not at all like rats, nor are they a sign of decay or poverty. CRIMSON mice happen to be the most elegant of their kind in the western hemisphere. Newspaper mice are an especially varied lot, and include editorial mice, reporting mice, photographic mice, and, of course, business mice. The CRIMSON'S Sanctum is an ideal place for mice...
...apparent decline of the American press as shown by the statistics, and the very real decay manifested by the quality of the papers that survive, have aroused serious concern among all those who believe in the daily newspaper as something more than a financial venture. Carl Lindstrom, for 40 years a working newspaperman and now a professor of journalism at the University of Michigan, is very clearly one of these believers, and, in The Fading American Newspaper, he tells the press that much of the fault lies with itself, not with technological developments and the competition of television...
...does not approve such journalistic fetishes as the "pyramid style" and the "five W's" leads which second-rate newsmen consider the heart of journalistic form. Lindstrom's difficulty is that his indictment is too broad: not everything is wrong with the daily newspaper, and not all the decay is entirely the newspaper's fault...
...impressive office buildings going up along Park Avenue and in the mid-town area stand in radical contrast to the slum conditions spreading in what not too long ago were fine residential neighborhoods. The cities are so much the center of modern cultural, social and economic life that their decay must be a cause for great national concern...
...opera proved that the cultural commissars Lad a supersensitive nose for bourgeois decay and no ear for music. They had completely ignored a libretto that wallowed in patriotism, and a highly melodious score. Based on a Stalin prize-winning novel, Prokofiev's Story tells of a World War II pilot who lost both legs in a crash and lived to fly again, after a harrowing, 17-day crawl behind enemy lines (enacting this scene, the opera's hero sings flat on his belly). With the composer and his wife themselves adapting the tale, the entire effort seems...