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...Revolt in Reverse," the annual production of Pi Eta Club, which goes on for the last time tonight, is perhaps typical of college theatricals. It is gay, noisy, colorful, and no more vulgar than the circumstances warrant. The total stranger is amused; enjoyment increases in direct proportion to the number of acquaintances in the cast and approaches ecstasy in the case of club members...
...comparable with the name Hearst for press potency-which they are today. With the successful purchase of the New York Telegram and later of the great New York World, they moved into Manhattan and gained prestige. Meanwhile Scripps-Howard came to identify a type of journalism, popular but not vulgar, liberal (supporting Roosevelt in his first term) but independent (criticizing Roosevelt later...
Frogs can breathe through their skins, but it is a vulgar error to suppose that they can bury themselves in sludge and sleep for centuries. After a miner named Ollie Jordan had set off a charge in a tunnel 75 feet below the surface of a hill near Ellensburg, Wash., he found "two handfuls of slimy, muddy substance." Few minutes after he had put this muck near a stove, it came apart, turned out to be six drowsy frogs. He took them home, where during the next two days they gradually sat up and began to hop, croaked loud enough...
...tried expensively to make something out of her that the U. S. would laugh at. But millions of Britons including the Royal Family find her so amusing that one of her shows, Mr. Tower of London, had a continuous run in England of seven years (1918-25). Sheer animal vulgarity, including flea-scratching and grimaces, makes her a frantic success in British music halls. So while King George receives only some $550,000 per year, chiefly for being dignified, Miss Fields last year received a reputed $750,000 for being both undignified and vulgar. Four years ago, when the Manchester...
...white. The press, in spite of its guaranteed freedom, is not permitted to be immoral, obscene or libelous. But in order to preserve freedom of expression, freedom of artistic taste and freedom of information to all minorities however wrong-thinking they may be, the press is permitted to be vulgar, if not suggestive, to be just as offensive as it likes to "right-thinking people." By FCC doctrine as laid down by Mr. McNinch, the radio may reflect only views and tastes agreeable to one group, those whom FCC defines as "right-thinking" peonle. Mr. McNinch went on still further...