Judge — April 23, 1932 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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PRAISE FROM THE CRITICS ‘All parents and srofit by his. story 7 Literary Digest all youth) may This departed college boy uncon- epic when he One of the umes. ever unde Harry lpia Pu cir ch Wildes we Ledyer, UTH- qHoueNTs OF YO don’t miss it ! LARRY columns or in book: es casual mer only a few co LARRY—over three thousand coy Thomas mentioned LARRY on the 7 voted two pz n uncensored revelation of modern youth a student at Laf. LARRY wai document consists of his letters, diary and personal philosophy—all yette College. This remarkable human 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 and friends were persuaded to share his thoughts with other boys and girls 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 and He put drunken classmates to bed and never preached at them. ghed down an “anti-necking society.” But Larry was no prig Ile was a leader of men, brave, gay tolerant el his own broncho, He punched cows and broke He lived gloriously and died with his boots on. as almost all mothers and fathers want their sons to be, and we believe his Larry was such a boy y 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” was published last Christmas. Little was heard of it then in literary There was no hallyhoo—very few reviews —only the most But LARRY began to sell: at first Dr. Cadman and Dr. Poling praised s were sold that month ous large newspapers. es a week, then a few hundred. One evening Lowell that same week The Literary Digest de- The publishers found they were out of stock. In the month audio 5 es to it. of June LARRY appeared on the national Best-Seller list, and six thousand people bought a new “best-seller.” a story so human and appealing that this “phenomenal book" (Retail Bookseller) is now in its 6th printing (45th to 55th thousand) Thoughts of Youth ® illustrations Such has been the remarkable sales record of LARRY: The John Day Co., Dept. J, 386 Fourth Avenue, New York Gentlemen: Please send me cop LARRY: Thoughts of Youth, price $1.50. Enclosed ple QUADAI-COLOR CO., JAMAICA. NYC comicbooks.com