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...school at 60. This is as true in the rarefied upper realms of business as anywhere else. The younger man who manages to attain to some showy second or third rank among financiers and businessmen is so remarkable that the cheer leaders of low literature . . . and the sob sisters move down upon his abode in echelon formation. ... In the arts the matter is notorious. There are young geniuses and child prodigies, who are admired like the aardvark and the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, but all the solid and enduring work is done by men who have lived long enough to have mastered...
...Melville E. Stone [an A. P. founder] must be turning in his grave if he is aware of the kind of sob stuff that is now appearing in the Associated Press reports. . . . Mr. Kent Cooper, the present able general manager . . . has broken with tradition after tradition of the service- the comic strips are his latest venture. So the Associated Press has long since abandoned its original conception of being a service devoted exclusively to the gathering of news; it is now engaged in the merchandising of purely amusement features. ... I append two of them [human interest stories] which I clipped...
Reading what he has to tell about himself, students of contemporary phenomena and throbbers over the owner of "The Voice with a Sob in It" will be interested in such Rudy Vallee views of Rudy Vallee as the following...
...article on telephone girls Mainichi points out that those new at their jobs are usually so sensitive that, when rebuked by an irate subscriber or cursed by a drunken one, they often put their dark little heads down on their switchboards and sob as though their hearts would break. Meanwhile hundreds of subscribers work themselves into a frenzy as they get no response to their jiggle or "moshi-moshi" signal...
...facts related to him by the client and gather the elements of proof into an honored sequence, so that when the trial begins it can move speedily to a decision. There must be no emotional pleading, no such disgrace to Justice as what the American's call 'sob stuff...