GOOD NEWS!

Commonest and dullest trick to make advertising copy seem imperative is the fake newspaper front page. However, when one of Massachusetts' tireless, keen-eyed radio "hams" spied such an imaginary newspaper page heading a radio tube advertisement in her January copy of the magazine QST, she took a magnifying glass to the tiny glyphs under a headline GOOD NEWS! Shocked, she tattled to her postmaster that she had discovered something far from dull. He called in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Hygrade Sylvania Corp., which made the tubes, shifted the blame to its advertising agency. The agency communicated hotly with the commercial studio which drew the ad. The studio hotly pounced on a cynical free-lance artist it had hired to do the actual drawing. , but he publicly denied he sketched what the Massachusetts "ham" had found written under GOOD NEWS!:

"PHILADELPHIA--You go and take a good substantial --* for yourself. You can do anything you please for the rest of your natural life. . . .

"WASHINGTON--The God damned President of these United States. . . ."

To the President, QST apologized.

^Obscenity deleted.

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