Press: GOOD NEWS!

Commonest and dullest trick to make advertising copy seem imperative is the fake newspaper front page. However, when one of Massachusetts' tireless, keen-eyed radio "hams" spied such an imaginary newspaper page heading a radio tube advertisement in her January copy of the magazine QST, she took a magnifying glass to the tiny glyphs under a headline GOOD NEWS! Shocked, she tattled to her postmaster that she had discovered something far from dull. He called in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Hygrade Sylvania Corp., which made the tubes, shifted the blame to its advertising...

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