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...Bisbee's Princess, the genuine article, brightly illumined the existence of that portly and proper small-town jeweler when he made her acquaintance on a train. Gossips beheld the illumination as the lurid glare of scandal. Bisbee's wife wailed and railed. Bisbee's business boomed. Long after, when the princess wrote for a pair of patent spectacles, Bisbee postured, privately but gallantly, with a paper cutter...
...SPRING FLIGHT-Lee J. Smits-Knopf ($2.50). When geese went north in the night, when lurid shafts of light played in a forbidden alley, when girls looked longingly at his curly, black hair, Kenneth Farr of the Middle West could not help feeling that there was more in life than his mother had told him about between family prayers. When he grew older and found he was right, he pitied himself for not having been told; posed alternately as "misunderstood" and "no good." As is usual in such cases, he wrote bad verse. He sought liberation on the stage...
Because of its central location in the U. S., Des Moines is frequently the scene of large conventions of various kinds of moral uplifters, in particular the Student Volunteers of America. The spirit of such gatherings is notably infectious. Hence, if the Register's temporary eschewal of lurid headlines loses the sheet no circulation, editors elsewhere are likely to grunt: ''Oh yes, in Des Moines," and continue to await the arrival of another Leopold-Loeb attraction for their display columns. Indeed, even the Des Moines Register tied a string to its promise. It reserved the right...
...taken action against La Liberté for printing untrue reports of a Red plot to seize the city of Amiens. Further and energetic action, he said, would be taken against offenders. The Government was also considering the expulsion of foreign correspondents who have been sending home to their newspapers "lurid reports of revolutionary activities...
...RESOLVED, That this Association encourage clean journalism by cooperation with such newspapers as show a disposition to cleanse their pages of these lurid crime stories...