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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From James M. Cain, a veteran of the days when the Mercury was indeed a sole refuge in a plague-ridden land, there come comments on Hollywood which reiterate the thesis repeated ad nauseam by this writer in these columns, viz., that movies cannot be good, but are excellent considering their number, audiences, and mode of production. For those who road and believe not, subscribe to Consumer's Research and buy not, an article by Mr. Sayre, late of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dispels many puffs which inflate the current nonsense about streamlined horseless carriages...
...Ad Apocryphal Cataloguery...
Last week's announcement won instant acclaim. One acclaimer was Cambridge's Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac who, now only 31, three years ago startled his learned compatriots by declaring that nuclear protons were simply "holes" in the circumambient electronic field. "A major ad-ance!" cried Dr. Dirac...
...reporter, a financial editor, an oilman. In 1916 he bought a racing stable, made a habit of attending every important U. S. race meeting, traveling in style whether flat or flush. In 1924 he started the New York Press in which, among racing tips, form charts, track gossip and ad- vertisements for ''advisory bureaus." he frequently reiterated his motto: ''All horse players must die broke." To friends he sardonically described his paper as "the fireside companion." A benefactor of in- digent racing addicts, he once distributed $250 to a half-dozen impoverished acquaintances while descending eleven...
...Garr took to yellow journalism like a rat to a sewer. By sensational news stories, circulation-forcing dodges, in a month he had quintupled the Chronicle's circulation. He tried to drive the competing paper off the streets by bribing or terrorizing the newsdealers. He reprinted every want-ad in his rival's columns, then claimed the largest want-ad section in the city. His reporters got him the scandalous facts on the city's key men, then he got the key men. ... In five years he had cleaned up a million dollars...