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...Petit Parisien (1,800,000 daily circulation, nearly three times greater than any American newspaper) is the most widely read journal in France. It is printed in 15 separate editions. The first edition comes off the press at 5.30 a. m. of the day before and is shot to the provinces furthest North. The last edition leaves the machines at 6 a. m. for the grand boulevards...
...size of an American daily. Within this radius the papers are distributed by small cars and cyclists to thousands of cafés. These cafés, opening early in the morning, make their profit by feeding the news agents and news vendors who come for their supply of Petit Parisiens. A corps of 15 super-inspectors and 60 district chiefs is on the move from dawn till sunset to keep the circulation booming in every quarter of Paris...
...novel produced in Indiana in the last seven weeks?of the finest book of poetry yet accomplished by a native Malaysian between the ages of 13 and 13½ ?the review that devotes its attention solely to errors of punctuation?the review that is entirely about the reviewer's petit dejeuner?the blurb? the blurb?the monstrous regiment of blurbs...
Francois Crucy, leading reporter of Le Petit Parisien (Paris), who covered Clemenceau's trip, says his first impression of the American newspaper was one of bulk and weight. " You do not compose your paper, you fill it up," he tells his fellow journalists in Editor and Publisher. His critique, summarized...
...with some young professionals for trying to break into a fur shop. One young man was shot fatally. In 1916 he had been convicted of burglary. His sentence was suspended. In the same year he brought forth fruits meet for repentance. Advancing gradually toward reform, he contented himself with petit larceny and was sent to the penitentiary therefor. Since then he had been arrested twice for grand larceny, once for burglary. The police have rudely interfered with his further steps toward reclamation. Six of his partners in public service, nabbed by the police, have consonant records. Thus one whose career...