Judge — March 26, 1932 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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PRAISE FROM THE CRITICS profit by ht ratched i vutstanding help.ng Wildes Ledyer en."—Harry Emers Philadelphia Publ don’t miss it ! Thoughts of Youth e with 15 illustrations n uncensored revelation of modern youth LARRY was a student at Lafayette College. ‘This remarkable human document consists of his letters, diary and personal philosophy—all written 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 friends were persuaded to share his thoughts with other boys and rls and with all other parents. Narrow modernists may get Larry wrong because he did not smoke or drink and was active in the Y and the church, He hit hard in football z gay and He put drunken classmates to bed and never preached at them, He laughed down an “anti-necking society.” But Larry was no prig. He was a ler of men, brave tolerant 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—can afford 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 There was no ballyhoo—very few reviews —only the most But LARRY began to sell: at first Dr. Cadman and Dr. Poling praised LARRY—over three thousand copies were sold that month. columns or in bookstores. casual mention in various large newspapers. only a few copies a week, then a few hundred. One evening Lowell Thomas mentioned LARRY on the radio; that same week The Literary Digest de- voted two pages 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.” ales record of LARRY: * (Retail Bookseller) is Such has been the remarkable a story so human and appealing that this “phenomenal bor now in its 6th printing (45th to 55th thousand). The John Day Co., Dept. J, 386 Fourth Avenue, New York Gentlemen: Please send me ... LARRY: Thoughts of Youth, price $1.50. Enclosed please find comicbooks.com