Nuisance Value

Few months ago two cocky young Harvardrmen decided that Massachusetts, which is liberally endowed with giveaway country weeklies, had no good ones. To amend the situation they started the Brookline Citizen in Boston's swankest suburb, proceeded to give it away to some 18,000 Brooklinites. By last week at least one reader had looked the gift horse in in the mouth and found it not to his liking. On the Citizen's editorial page appeared this letter from one Peter McMurrer: Will you kindly refrain from having the Citizen deposited at my door and thus save me the necessity of carrying it to the the ash can. ... Following the letter the Citizen printed this note: At our regular rate of $3.50, any disgruntled reader may have his own particular doorknob meticulously ostracized from the Citizen's delivery system for 52 weeks--a cost less than 7 cents per week--ED.

Publishers of the Citizen are big shy George Gardner Barker, 26, and blond ebullient Joseph Mortimer Boyd, 20, whom Harvardmen remember chiefly for his seceding from the sedate Crimson (undergraduate daily) last year to start a sensational, short-lived rival called the Journal. Since they started the Citizen a few months ago able Newsmen Barker and Boyd have garnered more display advertising than their stodgy 73-year-old competitor, raised their issues from eight pages to twelve.

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