Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such circumstance could be brought forward to extenuate the revolting offense perpetrated two days later by the Hearst Evening Journal. A life-beaten, despairing, undernourished Jew, one David Belinsky, deserted by his wife, had taken the lives of his tiny twin boys and committed suicide. The Journal reporter hurried to the Broad Street Hospital, where the two babies-five months old-were lying side by side after they had been pronounced dead. He took their picture as they lay there- the dry mouths contorted in the gape of their last, desperate expiration, their heads twisted sidewise on the pillow. ISADORE...
Harvard students whose professional literary efforts in the past have been rewarded by nothing but pink rejection slips will be able to learn the reason why this week from J. F. Lincoln '23, who has been sent to Cambridge by the editors of the Ladies' Home Journal to explain to prospective authors the requirements of modern fiction magazines...
...from its post such naiveties as this, friends of Judge might hotly demand? To them the thoughtful will answer: "Postmaster John Kiely [of New York City] is, like you, a friend of Judge. He well knows that there is no honest Rabelaisian lewdness in the pages of this flaccid journal; he must have been able to see that the editors were engaged in the far dirtier business of trying to make the clean appear foul. By barring the issue he has done the publisher a notable favor...
Meanwhile Publisher McCormick had put a collar on the bulldog in the form of Liberty, a brass-studded fiction journal, designed to attract readers who might otherwise spend their five cents on the Saturday Evening Post. New paper-mills were bought to serve the News and Liberty. The old bulldog had grown...
...sure, patients have been known to die, but at least such is not always the case. An interesting sidelight is the following quotation from Professor Bliss Perry of Harvard, as it appeared in an article entitled "Fashions in College Morals" in the current Ladies Home Journal...