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Sniffing about Europe in search of fun for himself and filler for his column, Scripps-Howard's sharp-nosed, sharp-tongued Columnist Westbrook Pegler last week discovered the extraordinary French magazine named Crapouillot, devoted a cabled column to telling U. S. readers about one issue of it. Unique is Crapouillot in devoting each issue to a single subject. Because it reminded him of Humphrey Cobb's best-selling novel Paths of Glory (TIME, June 3), Columnist Pegler had been attracted by the August 1934 issue, which told the appalling stories of a few of the luckless French soldiers...
Consider the schedule, for example: Holy Cross, Army, Dartmouth, Brown, and Princeton in an unbroken row, then a filler game with New Hampshire before meeting Yale. There's very little that is easy about that list. Holy Cross, with its heavy, Rockne-system teams, is always a hard, gruelling test for the Varsity. Last year it was the defeat by Holy Cross that touched off a whole train of troubles for Harvard...
...Four filler pencils...
Possibly as a space filler, possibly as an outburst of immature student rhetoric there appeared in yesterday's (April 24) CRIMSON the perennial complaint about traffic in Harvard Square. It is high time that this subject be dropped. It makes for senseless, complaining small talk of a third rate variety. This hand-flapping oh-dear, oh-dear attitude of regarding a congested corner is not only obsolete and impractical, but even sissy. By compulsory exercise regulations every undergraduate has become somewhat of an athlete. We are a community of youth. The vigour of a well-played game may be experienced...
...Complete" news broadcast, including the customary newspaper filler, would be as thoroughly annoying to radio listeners as a broadcast of the "complete" contents of TIME. No thinking radio news agency wants to broadcast "complete" news any more than TIME wants a "cover-to-cover" broadcast...