The Press: Up the Hill

The Saturday Evening Post, oldest U.S. magazine, last week helped its brother celebrate, a birthday. The juvenile monthly Jack and Jill was ten years old. Rummaging through Jack and Jill's letters column (it draws 18,000 letters a year), the Post collected a piece on "Kids Believe the Darnedest Things." Some of the things they believe: that bird dogs fly, that "juvenile" means bad and "delinquent" means children, that Lincoln's address was Gettysburg, that when it rains it rains all over, and that radios are inhabited by entertaining little people who ought to be applauded and occasionally fed—right through the...