Word: paged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...footnote on your gymnastic and unfailingly interesting letters page in TIME, Sept. 26 you reprove† Subscriber A. F. Higgins for inquiring about "Bernard" Macfadden. You point out that this publisher and physical culture bug spells his name "Bernarr." You know pretty nearly everything. Where did he get that nobby name...
...retired. Dr. Gills has written two books-The Price of a Sailor's Life and Three Years Under the Hammer-to set forth what he considers gross ineptitude in the Navy health service. Not until last week, however, did his objections attain the resonance of front page headlines...
...Mayor J. S. Smith congratulated him. Then for dinner, he was rushed to a banquet given in honor of the two flyers. Called upon for a speech, Mr. Schlee rose, said: "There seems to be a general misconception . . ." and collapsed. Friends attributed the breakdown to nervous strain. Said full-page newspaper advertisements:-"Detroit is proud of the Pride of Detroit and its Intrepid Pilots-Ed Schlee and Billy Brock...
...newsreaders know, last winter was the time when college boys, inspired by a dark and Faustian hunger, killed themselves by dozens. They know it because every time any college student committed suicide, the fact was bellowed from the front page of every U.S. newsheet. In a period when news was scarce, space was filled by the details of an imaginary "epidemic." Editors soon came to believe in their hoax and wrote articles showing how too much philosophy was being inserted into callow brains. Educators were faced with a grave dilemma, when it seemed probable that the death rate of colleges...
...might take exception to the language. In spots it is rough and, it seems to me, out of place on the printed page. Perhaps it is characteristic of our age, but not more so than of most ages. Somehow it is reminiscent of "Flaming Youth" or "The Plastic Age," literature acceptable to adolescent prep-school minds but hardly of lasting importance...