America Reads,But What: The Significance of Non-Literary Reading Materials

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Murphy, T.E. "For the Kiddies To Read." Reader's Digest, June, 1954. T. E. Murphy, columnist and editorial writer for the Hartford, Conn. Courant, initiated Hartford's crusade against crime comics by writing a column "Design for Murder." His newspaper followed this up with a series of amplifying news stories, while Murphy kept pounding away at the subject in editorials. Hartford's success in getting the worst crime comics off the newsstands is a tribute to the initiative and persistence of this writer and his newspaper.

Murrell, Jesse L. "Annual Rating of Comic Magazines." Parents, August, 1954. Pp. 48-et seq. This review of the comic books is an annual feature of Parents. A committee of eighty-four trained reviewers review what is available to children. The 1954 report tells why the ratings were given.

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