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Unfortunately, however, National Observer leads often consist merely of the first fact in a chronological recital, and indicate only indirectly what the story is about. In an article about the indictment of former Sister Kenny fund raisers, the first paragraph says, "Since its organization 17 years ago as a nonprofit organization corporation [????] for treatment of polio victims, the Sister Kenny Foundation of Minneapolis has always fared well in fund raising campaigns." Perhaps this is barely permissible in a magazine, but by its own admission, the National Observer is playing newspaper...
...much of the paper's shorter material is useless. Inconsequential one-paragraph news stories merely add to the welter of material, and the more homey ones are reminiscent of Grit, a family weekly that used to specialize in colloquial good will and pictures of giraffes. If there is anything this country doesn't need it, is another Grit...
There are other troublesome aspects about the Policy Statement. Not only do some of the proposals seem irresponsible, but the argumentation even on the serious issues is so extreme and tendentious that it undermines the document's force and credibility. Here, for example, is a paragraph on nuclear testing...
...would have been a much more pleasant surprise to and bits of my article for the Stanford Daily reprinted in the CRIMSON if you had included more of my positive statements. For example, I wish you had quoted the last paragraph, which said "I'm not sorry I transferred. There are many new ideas and live people here, and I'm lucky to get to know them." Of if you had mentioned my suggestion that Stanford should develop some of the academic enthusiasm that Harvard...
...nurturing an evangelical ambition "to inform, inspire and entertain." For its first eight years, the magazine subsisted on previously printed wares, simplified and condensed to accommodate Wallace's notion of suitable brevity or a reader's attention span. Even today, the Digest frequently shears the lead paragraph from reprinted articles, on the assumption that the author is only clearing his throat. Both in selecting and cutting, Wallace's hand was sure from the start. With only minor amendment, much of the February 1922 issue's table of contents could pass a Digest reader's muster...