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...same liesurely journalistic style which allows reviews of symphony concerts to run three columns ought at least to permit more than mere tabloid comment on matters of such obvious educational importance as the permanence of collegiate training. Departures from policy of this nature are all the more insidious since they fail to carry the warning found in less selective journals which usually run this sort of material under some such head as "thirty seconds a day with serious thinkers...
...might hope to find a blending of youthful idealism and careful thinking that would bring a journal of opinion to a high standard. Discussions in such a medium should be by and for undergraduates, and of an original turn, uncolored with the general propaganda motive. The Progressive with its tabloid-like treatment of the liberation of mankind theme can scarcely be considered to include any of those features which would seem to justify it as the organ of a group of Harvard students...
WRITTEN by a reporter of the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Evening American, this latest of novels on the life of a modern scribe has very little to recommend it. The story starts nowhere, gets now-where. The style is tabloid, frequently illustrated with actual newspaper stories of the most Moronic cast. Attempting, evidently, to give an impressionistic picture of the emotions of a rather sensitive reporter in the pay of a sensation-trusting city staff, the book falls short of the mark, and this despite the inclusion of various little novelties, the use of actual newspaper heads...
Every Manhattan news organ has now noticed this divorce broker. The small-town press has ballyhooed him in syndicated feature stories. Tabloid editors have gleefully plastered up headlines to the effect that Arturo del Toro is the "enemy of Cupid, the "king of divorce," the "boss of the Border bright lights...
...headline in the Daily News, Manhattan tabloid, screamed to the Friday evening crowds last week...