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# Analysis: "LARRY: Thoughts of Youth" This page is primarily a **book advertisement** rather than editorial satire. It promotes "Larry: Thoughts of Youth," presented as an authentic diary of a deceased Lafayette College student—"not fiction, but the true diary and letters of a modern college student." The marketing copy emphasizes the book's frank, unfiltered content about college life, claiming it reveals truths parents need to understand about their sons. The appeal is moralistic: parents should read it to connect with youth culture. The silhouette illustration shows a young man on horseback against a sunrise—a romanticized image of idealistic youth. The $1.50 price and mail-order form suggest this was a commercially successful publication marketed to concerned parents seeking insight into collegiate behavior and values.
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PRAISE FROM THE RITICS oo n uncensored as revelation of modern youth All profit by I This departed college boy uncon- LARRY was a student at Lafayette College. This remarkable human document consists of his letters, diary and personal philosophy—all ten with no thought of publication and never revised, for he was killed suddenly Not fiction, but the true diary and letters of a modern college student— so frank, unspoiled and revealing that after Larry's death his parents and friends were persuaded to share his thoughts with other boys and girls and with all other parents. row modernists may get Larry wrong because he did not smoke or drink and was ve in the Y and the church. But Larry was no prig. He hit hard in football. Tle was a leader of men, brave, gay and tolerant. He put drunken classmates to bed and never preached at them. He laughed down an “anti-nec! ciety.” He punched cows and broke his own broncho. He lived gloriously and died with his boots on. Larry was such a boy as almost all mothers and fathers want their sons to be, and we believe his story to be a document that no parent—and no son or daughter—cear ‘ord to miss Every Mother and Father—Daughter and Son Should Read This Book NOW A NATIONAL “BEST-SELLER” LARRY was published last Christmas. Little was heard of it then in literary don’t miss it! columns or in bookstores. There was no ballyhoo—very few reviews —only the most 1 mention in various large newspapers. But LARRY began to sell: at first few copies a week, then a few hundred. Dr. Cadman and Dr. Poling praised ILARRY—over three thousand copies were sold that month. One evening Lowell Thomas mentioned LARRY on the radio; that same week The Literary Digest de- voted ts ges to it. The publishers found they were out of stock. In the month of June LARRY appeared on the national Best-Seller list, and six thousand people bought a new “best-seller.” Such has been the remarkable sales record of LARRY: a story so human and appealing that this “phenomenal book” (Retail Bookseller) is now in its 6th printing (45th to 55th thousand). The John Day Co., Dept. J, 386 Fourth Avenue, New York Thoughts of Youth Gentlemen: oO Please: send (Me? « sere waves ws, scavans,s as LARRY: Thoughts of Youth, price $1.50. with 15 illustrations Enclosed please find... comicbooks.com