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...Close examination of Reporter Mencken's short story revealed traces of the cacophonous word-mongering that was later to become so characteristic of Publicist Mencken's literary style. Youth's Companion readers were obliged, in this tale of dentistry, to cope with jawbreakers such as "apocryphal," "masticators," "lagniappe" (gratu...
...working up a series of boys' stories; a lad who three years afterwards had the city editor's desk on his newspaper, in five years the head editor's desk of the Baltimore Evening Herald, in 25 years the title (con- ferred by Critic Ernest Boyd): "foremost U. S. publicist...
Commented Georg Bernhard, leading Liberal publicist, in the Vossische Zeitung...
...Glenn Frank, who since his elevation to the presidential chair of the University of Wisconsin has taken to writing newspaper articles in the manner of Dr. Frank Crane and Publicist Bruce Barton, last week outlined to a newspaper reporter the policy he intends to pursue in his new incumbency. There is an issue at Wisconsin: the regents' resolution to accept no more endowment funds from incorporated educational foundations (TIME, Aug. 17, Oct. 26). But Dr. Frank has only just gone on the scene. He is not one to commit himself. With a shrewd editor's talent for making...
Born of terse North Englanders, serious as a youth, more so as a student, critical as a traveler, unabashed as a college reformer; a militant rector, fearless and hard-headed politician, prolific publicist, consistent evolutionary sociologist?William Graham Sumner comes vigorously to life in this friendly biography, the planning and writing of which deserve, quite as much as the subject, that old-fashioned adjective, "exemplary...