The Press: Morley's Quip

Sitting on the seashore in Normandy, dangling his feet over a cliff and cursing French pipe tobacco, Christopher Morley (famed colyumist) conceived an idea. He scrawled his pen over a piece of paper and sent it to a friend in the U. S. Said the sheet:

"Why wasn't Frank Munsey called Joshua? He made the Sun stand still."*

The Sun (New York) is a great paper. Mr. Munsey has fostered it and buttressed it with the corpses of other great papers, which he bought at large expense. The Sun's circulation grows steadily. Mr. Morley must have been thinking of the Sun's content—not its...

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