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...Benton's lurid anti-Axis paintings (TIME, April 6, 1942), Kootz declares: "[They] proved embarrassing because the imagery was from stock molds and the sentiment descended to cheap melodrama...
...remarkably healthy. He still bubbles with new ideas for his publications, over which he maintains the vigilance of a whimsical despot. His newspapers are still wild-eyed, red-inked, impulsive, dogmatic, often inaccurate, and littered with grade-A, boob-catching circulation features. Currently Hearstpapers are making lurid attacks against "Stalin's Monstrous Double-Dealing," and are promoting "Total Warfare Against Japan . . . NOW." But Hearst personally has mellowed in his declining years, if his press has not. A recent edict of "advice to reporters and editors" said: "Be courteous and considerate. Make newspapers and newspapermen popular...
Boys and girls in the upper teens are apparently committing more U.S. crimes. There were as yet no conclusive figures. But the nation's newspapers and police-station blotters were daily splashed with lurid ink about the deeds of the generation just too young to fight. Juvenile delinquency rose 10% last year in New York and Chicago, was up to 100% in war-boom towns. Case histories of last week...
...author of the best-selling Out of the Night, which he wrote under the name of Jan Valtin, hulking, gap-toothed Richard Krebs had shocked U.S. readers with his offhand account of a lurid, turbulent life as an agent of both the Ogpu and Gestapo. He later admitted he had added the experiences of other men "to make the book as effective as possible," was roundly denounced by Communists as a faker. But his fame was his undoing: he admitted that he had once before been deported by the U.S., that he had committed perjury -both grounds for deportation...
...before being commissioned as officers in any branch of the armed forces will be trained at the Harvard Business School, proudly announced "The Business School Bugle," a bootleg, burlesque paper which Friday leaped into lurid prominence in the world across the Charles...