The Press: A Pie

Messrs. H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan (editors of Smart Set) have long offered a custard pie (size 3½ by 4¾, actually baked and delivered) as prize for each month's most reprehensibly absurd statement in public print.

It is conceivable that the October pie will go to Judge, moribund comic weekly.

Two cheaply drawn and printed views of bathing nymphs in four-ounce costumes were offered in the " house ad" of Judge for Oct. 13 as " the two pictures the College and Prep School boys have gone crazy over."

Judge went further: " There's nothing that will make the college or...

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