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...many and many a place where the New York World was only a name, there was consternation over its passing last year. The paper was to die, a great pity. And what about the World Almanac? Would there be no more Almanac? Would the schoolboy in Great Falls no longer search its pages for the latest figures on anthracite production in Pennsylvania - and pause to examine the fascinating his tory of lynching in the U. S.? Would the farmer in Nebraska no longer be able to find at a glance the height of the Empire State Building, the height...
...Earl of Harewood, son-in-law of George V, the Earl of Ellesmere, the Earl of Rosebery, the London Times and the Racing Almanac were ordered to pay ?16,000 damages to Racehorse Trainer Charles Chapman in the latters libel suit in which he claimed he had been falsely accused of doping the racehorse Don Pat at Newmarket Heath two years...
...universal a faith in its sovereign power of ministering to success. America has about 920,000 college and university students. There were about 145 colleges and universities under public control, 520 under private control and 260 junior colleges in the United States in 1926, according to The World Almanac. The value of their property alone, in 1927, was estimated at $2,413,748,981. The spiritual returns from this investment are incalculable, but America is in desperate need of some sane and safe method of separating the sheep--always few in number in intellectual pasture lands--from the multitude...
Created in the image of The New Yorker, five years ago The Chicagoan first appeared, drawing its inspiration from the East, its pocket money from the West. Publisher was Martin Quigley, a hardworking, red-headed newspaper man who had made enough money out of cinema trade magazines (Motion Picture Almanac, Herald and Daily, Better Theatres, Hollywood Herald) to take up polo. First issues reminded readers not so much of The New Yorker as of an imitation of a college funnypaper imitating The New Yorker. But the magazine improved with age, reported the local drama, sport, social goings-on with...
...outline has been preserved: the Yankee finds his dream is real, he is at the Court of the Round Table, and he amazes King Arthur by causing the sun to become dark on the day he is to be executed, a feat which he announces after consulting his pocket almanac. The Yankee organizes factories in which modern appliances are turned out for the use of medieval people and sends the knights out riding with sandwich boards slung over their armor advertising corn cure, liver pills. fountain pens...