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...demise in Philadelphia newspaperdom last week underscored a harsh truism: U.S. magazine publishers have failed notoriously to publish successful newspapers. The long-sick Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger was ordered liquidated by a Federal District Court. With it disappears the last remnant of the would-be newspaper empire started 29 years ago by the late, great Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, genius of the Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, etc. His empire-building had cost $42,000,000 and he had bought, started or swallowed eight newspapers with a combined peak circulation of 848,000. But, like Frank Munsey and Bernarr Macfadden...
...present war is the cliche that 'while we must give England all possible help short of war, if we permit ourselves to be drawn in we shall sacrifice forever the very democracy for which we shall be fighting.' By constant repetition this idea has acquired the force of a truism in many people's minds. However, these are times when it is well to subject even the most obvious assumptions to close scrutiny...
Said Dr. Kennedy: "These esoteric but good little boys of science said pompously the truism that war is out of harmony with the rational spirit and with the objective methods of science. . . . What do they mean by 'objective'? Science can more easily be objective today in Pasadena than on a Belgian road under machine guns and the objectivity of science in Leipzig today exists in the exact proportion of the usefulness of that science to the National Socialist Administration...
...after investing $900,000, the studio temporarily pushed it far back on the shelf while Spencer Tracy made Stanley and Livingstone, producers made changes in the cast, the direction, the Charles MacArthur script. Face-saving retakes cost some $500,000. Result: an entertainment hangover throbbing with the self-evident truism that Hedy Lamarr is quite an eyeful...
...million tons of oil a year. The entire annual yield of the nearby Rumanian fields, assuming Germany could and would quickly take Rumania through Hungary, is short of 7,000,-ooo tons and synthetic production in Germany can hardly exceed a million tons. Furthermore, number one truism of writers on military problems is that the next long war will be won by the nation with the greatest industrial potential behind the lines. The ability to mass-produce and to service guns, tanks, planes, ships and motors will, so the military theoreticians predict, be the crucial factor. Her lack of home...