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News candidates are reporters. It is they who gather the news for the daily issues, competing for this news on equal footing with professional reporters for the Boston and New York dailies. As reporters they vie with one another for scoops, for which they receive extra credit; they fulfill assignments; they secure timely interviews with prominent men and women in every field. In short, they become full fleged newspapermen. After making the board, they have an opportunity to compete for executive positions on the paper...
Pipers who desire, in these times, to be paid by those who dance, vie with one another to find new pipes...
...magazines most generally excoriated were: Artists and Models, La Vie Parisienne, Hot Dog, Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang, Cis Weekly-booklets which, with a clutter of others, including Paris Nights, So This Is Paris, Ziffles, True Confessions, obtain a certain insecure circulation by pandering to the suppressed bawdiness of soiled minds. They marshal their pornography under a variety of shams: some affecting the disguise of wit, some the imposture of art. The wit is usually flaccid filth which lacks the forthright virtues of true ribaldry; the art similar to the crude but spirited masterpieces with which anonymous Raphaels adorn...
Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang alternates between the urbane pleasantries of high-school debauches and the vicious smut of discontented sheepherders: Fly-speckled jokes, limaceous verses, epigrams as forlornly disorderly as the cigar ashes left behind the curtain of a cheap hotel room by its last occupant. La Vie Parisienne presents pornography that often cannot be understood without a modicum of sophistication or an understanding of the more bizarre manifestations of the sexual impulse ; its drawings are occasionally clever. In these respects, it is superior to competitors. English translations, however, accompany the more salacious jocosities, and these invariably emasculate...
News is original in a sense, but newspapers are prepared to vie with one another for additional originality in almost anything, so long as they can lay claim...