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...PANTS-John W. Thomason Jr.-Scribner's ($2.50). A hurried Kipling, a carelessly capable War correspondent, Artist-Author-Captain Thomason writes about marines and soldiers, sailors and adventurers on the hot coasts of Cuba and in the lively fields of France. Exhibiting the scattered but emphatic vigor of exploding shrapnel, his stories lack the controlled and deliberate, effectiveness of heavier artillery...
...front of a machine gun. "A Razor Strop" is an embittered sketch of a soldier whose trivial theft leads him to a profitless disaster. Other stories about captains and colonels and knights-at-arms gain their effect from staccato characterization, a style made pungent by army jargon. Author Thomason has much ability to make the minutiae of life significant...
...Similarly Tampa, Fla., looked forward last week to having a model newspaper. The local Tribune was sold by the syndicate of Tampa businessmen that had owned it since 1925, to President John Stewart Bryan of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association and his predecessor in that office, S. Emory Thomason. Old friends, the new partners paid a booming price for their property-$900,000-and assumed all liabilities. They said they believed in Tampa, believed northern capital was by no means through flowing south. Publisher Bryan did not announce that he would leave his Richmond (Va.) News-Leader and devote...
Officers. To succeed S. E. Thomason (Chicago Tribune) as their president, the publishers elected John Stewart Bryan (Richmond News-Leader). Edward H. Butler (Buffalo Evening News), George M. Rogers (Cleveland Plain Dealer) and Howard Davis (New York Herald Tribune) were other new officers?vice president, secretary and treasurer, respectively...
...speech on "What the Public Expects of Its Schools," and the pupils were asked to tell what had impressed them about the speech. Carl Bismarck Roden, of the Public Library made them look up the life of John Quincy Adams, to illustrate the use of reference devices. S. E. Thomason, business manager of the Chicago Tribune, brought out a bank deposit slip and made the pupils total it up- a test of reliability in practical arithmetic. Other tests were given, by qualified testers, in literary taste, good manners, music, history, civics, composition, penmanship, drawing, art appreciation, safety methods...