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...suit for defamation of character against Adman Bruce Barton by his onetime file clerk Gertrude Gussenhaven Wagner King (TIME, May 1): dismissal and award of $156 for costs to Mr. Barton in Manhattan Supreme Court. In jail on Barton's charges of attempted extortion, Mrs. King did not appear in court. ¶ To the injuries (broken arm & leg. internal injuries) of Thomas David Schall Jr., 23, son of Minnesota's blind Senator: an award by a Washington jury of $60,000 plus interest against Standard Oil Co. of N. J., whose truck collided with the Schall automobile near...
...want me to tell all?" said she. He did. She said she had closely observed the hogs on her father's farm and on the estate of her Lake Forest neighbor, Adman Albert D. Lasker. In addition she had studied a public library book on Swine Husbandry...
...editor and business manager of Trend have helpful connections. Publisher Peter Vischer of Polo is the brother-in-law of Editor Frederick Guyn ("Fritz") Brownell, onetime general manager of the Washingtonian and editor of Buffalo Town Tidings. Adman Albert Davis Lasker is cousin to Business Manager Eugene Meier Warner. Money from Warners, Schoellkopfs and other rich & prominent Buffalonians will tide the enterprise over until the promoters decide whether they will accept advertisements, add another four pages. Five advts, claimed Trend, had already been turned down...
...Ziff, now 34. Starting with the Chicago Defender he built up a large clientele of Negro publications whose efforts to solicit national advertising are hampered by "Jim Crow" rules in some Southern office buildings, tacit prejudice elsewhere. Most Negro newspapers are too indigent to maintain traveling representatives. One of Adman Ziff's first tasks was to persuade Negro publishers to audit their circulations accurately. In some cases he paid for the auditing himself...
...Blond, bespectacled Adman Hollister claims that, as a substitute on a Harvard (1913) football eleven, he was the first man to run a touchdown to the wrong goal...