The Press: Potshots at Santa Claus

There was a young lady of Kent

Who said that she knew what it meant

When men asked her to dine,

Gave her cocktails and wine:

She knew what it meant—but she went.

The limerick's lady of Kent, according to Louisville Times Managing Editor Norman Isaacs, 46, is not very different from many a newsman. Writing in the current issue of Quill, monthly magazine of the professional journalism fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi. Editor Isaacs charged that more and more newsmen are succumbing to the compromising blandishments of pressagents, promoters, politicians and others whose objective with...

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