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HAROLD THE WEBBED or THE YOUNG VIKINGS: Being Volume Two of the Life and Works of TRADER HORN-Alfred Aloysius Horn and Ethelreda Lewis-Simon and Schuster...
Garrulous, white bearded Mr. Smith, famed as Alfred Aloysius "Trader Horn," reached England, last week, on the S. S. Carmania, having voyaged from Manhattan with Richard Simon, a partner of the firm of Simon and Schuster, his publishers. Up to last week 168,000 copies of Mr. Smith's colorful autobiography, Trader Horn, had been sold. He, proud independent, left the U. S. without yielding to a single one of numerous tempting offers from advertisers who wanted to pay "Trader Horn" for endorsing their products...
Trader Horn. The old man named Smith who "dictated" a fanciful autobiography of his life in Africa and signed it "Alfred Aloysius Horn" continued his adventures in Manhattan last week...
Trader Horn. Shameful was the exploitation last week, in Manhattan, of a white-haired and quavering old man of 75 whose name is Smith but who has become famous as Alfred Aloysius ("Trader") Horn. His arrival from Johannesburg, South Africa, via London, was made the occasion for a humorous publicity campaign by the Publishers of Trader Horn, a biography of Afric blood and thunder which the old man is said to have "dictated" (TIME, June 27). Throughout the week, Mr. Smith wandered like a puzzled Rip Van Winkle through a series of functions at which he, in contrast to most...
...list of Chairman Storey's committeemen is formidable: Brigadier General William Wallace Atterbury for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Patrick Edward Crowley for the New York Central; Charles Donnelly for the Northern Pacific; Laurence Aloysius Downs for the Illinois Central; Carl Raymond Gray for the Union Pacific; Edward Jones Pearson for the New York, New Haven & Hartford; Bird M. Robinson for the American Short Lines Association...