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...everyone knows, Arthur Brisbane began newspaper work on the New York Sun. His father had introduced him to Editor Charles A. Dana (whom the elder Brisbane had gotten started in a $5-a-week job on the Tribune...
...fiction." Omitted from blurb: She is the attractive socialite daughter of Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, who divides with his cousin, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, management of Liberty, Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News. It was on the tabloid News that Daughter Alicia worked in 1927 as a $30-a-week sobsister, was once thrown downstairs by an irate Hoboken housewife whom she sought to interview on henpecking. To other Chicago £nd Manhattan social ites the authoress is Mrs. Simpson. James Simpson Jr., whom she married in 1927 and from whom she now lives apart (in Manhattan...
...prime exhibit of "Bawdy Boston" (expose article in Plain Talk by Walter W. Liggett (TIME, Dec. 23) was Oliver Bridge Garrett, onetime "million-dollar cop" of the Boston police force, now a pensioner of Massachusetts taxpayers. Investigator Liggett reported that, with no visible income beyond his $40-a-week salary as head of the vice squad, Patrolman Garrett used to maintain a blooded-stock farm, a racing stable, a Cadillac, a Marmon, a Chrysler, a wardrobe of $150 tailored suits. Suddenly, last August, Patrolman Garrett was reduced to a pavement beat. Said Writer Liggett: "It is the belief of Boston...
...John Kristopek, middleaged, $25-a-week worker in a raybestos factory at Passaic, N. J., who had been buying tickets in lotteries, raffles, baseball pools all his life, and Angelina and Sophie Jobe, waitresses in the Hollywood Coffee Shop on Second Avenue, Manhattan: $23,130 and $12,000 respectively in the Grand National sweepstakes...
...trail for editing a radical weekly, he left for Switzerland, radical retreat, then for New York via steerage where he was admitted past the Statue of Liberty after some demur over his appearance. Living with a friend in Brooklyn, he found work two hours away as $12-a-week draughtsman for solemn, pouchy-eyed Rudolf Eichemeyer of Yonkers, himself a political refugee turned manufacturer of hat machinery and the first successful (Otis) elevator motor...