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Show EFFICIENCY IN "NEWS STYLE" Columns of the Modern Journal Contain, Con-tain, It Is Claimed, the Best of English Phrasing. It Is seldom that a good word is said in academic circles for what is termed "neweptper English," meaning the terse, trenchant style in which the best journalists are in the habit of expressing ex-pressing themselves. The College of Journalism, however, recognizes the value of this style, and Prof. F. W. Beekman, a well-known educators, says: "With all its faults I still believe in the news style as the most efficient style of this modern day of presenting information through the written word. It has been hammered out In the heat and stress of newspaper work to meet the demands of the millions for something some-thing to compel their attention, Interest Inter-est them and give them Information in the quickest, clearest way possible." There is much truth in this, but not all the truth. So-called "newspapc? English" has left its Indelible mark on the literature and especially the fiction fic-tion of our times. The most successful success-ful stories are those told in the fewest few-est words. The old-fashioned flowing periods, which produced verbal melodj instead of recording facts, have lost their charm for novel readers, whose esiger brains are anxious to absorb the tale rather than linger over "fins writing." |