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...Papers of the Hearst and Chicago Tribune persuasion): "Hot stuff! Sensational! Lay it on thick; run it every day! Great headlines! Maybe it isn't the best way of reforming the world, but for the present it's the best way to sell lots of newspapers." ¶(Gum-chewers'sheetlets): "Meat! Meat for us! Get the pictures, pictures, pictures! But of course we can't keep Chapman on the front page very long. There'll be a dozen crimes as good tomorrow...
...gum-chewers' press, the "human interest" sheetlets, did they pass by an opportunity? Certainly not. The New York Evening Bulletin ran a picture of Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge and began the story: "An event that is nobody's business and yet is everybody's business is expected at the White House, it is rumored. . . ." The Daily News, Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet, ran two pictures of the Coolidges, was careful to say: "Inquiry among attaches of the White House has failed,however, to elicit confirmation of the story." Characteristic of these two journals was their employment...
...that Harvard has fallen heir to the slot machines in New York subways, the University ought tothem over to the Business School to administer. This will give the boys laboratory practice in the mismanagement of big affairs Incipient captains of industry who can make two sticks of gum grow where one grew before will be awarded their degrees "summa cum Wrigley." Then, too, the following little poem sung to any old tune that fits, can serve as the HBS national anthem...
Little sticks of chewing gum...
...paper was said to be The Daily Graphic, daily illustrated paper equivalent to U. S. gum-chewers' sheetlets. Lord Curzon was, however, particularly fond of The Morning Post, owned by the Duke of Northumberland, and possibly it was this paper which printed the special edition...