Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paunchy man in pajamas and a plump girl in a film of silk underwear re-enact for Graphic cameras the more revolting moments described by Mrs. Browning. Faces of the real characters, their grievances exaggerated by retouchings, were then pasted in these photographs and the Graphic's front pages were spread with the admittedly faked results, To ridicule Mr. Browning and stimulate convulsions corresponding to laughter in the biped organisms to which the Graphic panders, astounding imbecilities were shown issuing from the character's mouths. From Mr. Browning's: "Woof! Woof! Don't be a goof...
Mirror. The Hearst Mirror covered its front page with close-up portraits of the Brownings and, in prodigious type: "SUNNY CRAZY." (Mr. Browning's portrait stood for the "B" in "Bunny"). Shaking letters were used to print: "FLAMING YOUTH." Subtitle: "His Mania Causes Peculiar Love for Young Girls-Alienist." Text: "A famous [anonymous] alienist . . . diagnoses his case as 'pathological pedophilia,' a symptom of a disease of the brain classified as a sexual aberration. . . ." The Mirror, too, strove for features to please child minds-an "interview" (in mixed dialects) with Mr, Browning's pet African goose...
...stop. The tabloids, moreover, had made of the Brownings "news" which newspapers could not, they felt, afford to omit. The Hearst Journal was willing enough, nay, eager, to rush its leading staff members to the trial, including saccharine Nell Brinkley who discovered a "lesson to mothers" for the front page. But the editor of the New York Herald Tribune may well have pondered before deciding the sensation was so unavoidable that he must assign to it Star Reporters Forrest Davis and Whitney Bolton. Both the Herald Tribune and the New York Times made pitiable (and dishonest) efforts at decency...
...Country Over. Newspapers the country over-San Francisco's Chronicle, Washington's Post, St. Paul's Pioneer Press, Baltimore's Sun, Toledo's Blade -submitted to the logic of their past scandal policies and told their readers, in front-page despatches from news services and special correspondents, about the abnormalities of a fat old flesh-potter in a distant city. The sensational Cleveland News, stewing in its own juice finally became disgusted with itself and apologized to the public, in real misery...
Coach A. W. Samborski '25 has discovered a new left guard in Lewis who has come to the front in the last two weeks and will answer the opening whistle with La Rue to ward off the Exonian attack...