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Publisher William Randolph Hearst, as everyone knows, possesses 28 U. S. newspapers. His public is composed, he slogans, of 20 million people?"People Who Think." Whenever he is moved to expound his personal views in public, all he needs to do is notify his nearest editor and the land will soon be flooded with pungent paragraphs over the cramped, irregular, sharp-slanting Hearst signature...
...Funnyman Benchley's creek of comedy has by no means yet run dry. He babbles gently on in parody of Sherwood Anderson, H. G. Wells, Calvin Coolidge, Thomas Beer, polar expeditions, founding a night club, interviewing celebrities, solving crimes, stabilizing francs. His method of reductio ad imbecillum is to expound a subject in its simplest terms, putting caricaturist's emphasis on one or two superficial details. Example: "According to Dr. Max Hartmann . . . there is no such thing as absolute sex. If 60% of your cells are masculine you rate as a male. If 60% are feminine, you sit with...
...clock offers another moot question to the Vagabondian public when Professor Demos explains William James' Conception of Free Will to those who make Emerson D a throw back to the Platonic Academy. At the same hour Dr. Mason in Emerson F will expound "Marxism and Bolshevism," a lecture which should draw heavily from those who are interested in socialistic ideas...
...warmth of Irish blood reared "down South." None knows better than she the tragedy of good taste ruined by poor execution. She has labored over her execution until it is deft and capable except for the first-novelist's last fault, propping the characters up and making them expound the argument sometimes...
This talk will be chiefly literary in character, and in it Mr. Young will expound his views on the writing profession in general, as well as his ideas of his own work...