French Academician Andre Siegfried, author, economist and world traveler, after 50 years of reading U.S. newspapers, paid them a Gallic compliment. The U.S. press, said he, "has reached maturity but without having lost its youth. Especially it has preserved its real genius, which is that of a reporter. It is interested in everything."
Perhaps too interested in color and not enough in facts, a New York Daily News copyreader last week embroidered an A.P. story about Harry Robert Bell of West Palm Beach, Fla., just home from the wars. If he had stopped to think, he would probably not have dressed up...
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