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This article presents information on different newspapers, read by the people of the U.S. The article also presents an account of headlines and statements, published in these newspapers, regarding a controversy surrounding the students of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. One of the newspaper "San Francisco Chronicle," said that presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson quelled a pushing, pulling mob of Yale students by appealing to their pride as Yale men and Americans." As reader, Francis J. Carr, of Palo Alto, California observes: "The upshot of the whole affair was that apparently the Yale students were in a rather festive mood."

This article focuses on the press coverage of an international conference in Geneva, Switzerland. The American press struggled along as best it could. The old timers, Frederick Kuh and Edgar Mowrer mixed with Pertinax, Madame Tabouis and other specters risen from the thirties. Less experienced international reporters: Fred Collins of the "Providence Journal," Martin Hayden of the "Detroit News," Nat Finney of the "Buffalo Evening News," Arthur Sylvester of the "Newark News" and Richard Wilson of the "Cowles" papers compared notes on the separate briefings with painstaking concern for details. Drew Pearson resorted to a series of flashbacks from the past.

Comments on the failure of many people to heed warnings that are communicated to them. Continuing death of small children from suffocation with plastic bags despite warnings about their dangers; Victims of con artists; Use of narcotics by teenagers despite campaigns about the dangers posed by drugs; Suggestion to lace sports and entertainment news with important public messages.

Focuses on the role of the press in two consecutive U.S. election. Comments on the drifting of the press into bias by negation; Comparison between the newspapers published on the first three days of a week in the two consecutive election campaigns; Discussion of the comparative quiet of the papers on the campaign several weeks ago.