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...Tribune piled up more profits than ever in its highly prosperous career. Captain Patterson, taking a hint from Lord Northcliffe ("New York's simply begging for a picture newspaper"), decided that the bulldog needed a tail. He started the New York Daily News, gum-chewer's sheetlet, which began to wag at a great rate. In three years its circulation was 400,000. "When it reaches a million," said Mr. Patterson, "I shall go to New York for good...
...leading position is given to an article by Walter D. Edmonds, Jr., called "The Gum-Didderators of Football." Besides the tocsin sound of the title, the author provides a further alarum by the use of "jugglingatoriums" in the third paragraph. The problem of the importance of the game of football in the program of American higher education is a vexed one; Mr. Edmonds' distinguishing contribution to the discussion is a decree that "big" games are all right--because they have some part in the prevention of hardening of alumni arteries but that they should be kept among friends and neighbors...
That evening the winds raged, the channels foamed and a deluge fell. The welcomers bought out the slicker, gum-boot and food supply of the isolated little resort and waited with the homing argonauts until the second day, clear and fine, permitted returning to Wiscasset for the postponed official ceremonies...
...hanging phrases and mazes of parenthetical elucidation, the traits of a deliberate genius for writing of the perplexing muddle known as Life to Average People. Still others, a critical few, whose censure affects the sales of Author Hutchinson's books about as much as it would discourage gum-chewing among U. S. salesladies, maintain that this author is a harmless dolt with a flair for illiterate sob-mongering...
...entire profession will soon demand justice of the public .... They should receive from $30,000 to $50,000 annually. The tendency should be, unless the cost of living falls off sharply, to pay the higher sum generally. . . . This nation spends many hundreds of millions a year upon chewing gum and candy ... a half-billion on military and naval aviation since the war. . . billions for pleasure automobiles. Our contention here is that it is not being used to the best advantage...