The Press: Strictly Personal

YOUNG COLLEGE MAN, travelled, slightly peeved and irked, not disenchanted, would relish hearing from bright young things with gay outlook, brilliant notions. Box 151-J.

Young College Men, Venturesome Lasses and Literate Gentlemen have long packed the Saturday Review of Literature's Personals with lonely heartthrobs and V-necked prose that made lively reading. But last week S.R.L., with the air of a matron swearing off sweets, announced that it would print no more "advertisements inviting correspondence." Said the weekly: its circulation had grown too fat for it "to monitor [the ads] properly." In his Manhattan office, Publisher Jack Cominsky was more blunt. "These people,"...

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