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...grand-jury investigation of police graft in 1937 showed what the Old Lady was up to. Investigator Edwin N. Atherton reported that McDonough Bros, controlled men all through the police department, was "a fountainhead of corruption, willing to interest itself in almost any matter designed to defeat or circumvent the law." No one could open a bawdy house or gambling dive without Mc-Donough approval, and a McDonough okay was insurance that the police would rarely drop around except for a payoff. The payoff ran into staggering figures. San Francisco's 135 "regular, old-established" brothels and its hundreds...
With a composition as clean as an Airacobra's wing, Vienna-born Posterman Joseph Binder won $500 for the best design for Army Air Corps recruiting. A deft color job that made the most of his abstractionist science won Painter John Atherton of Ridgefield, Conn, first money for the best poster boosting Treasury defense bonds. The Treasury announced that it would purchase Atherton's winner and 16 others. The Army promised to take a look at the best work in the Army Air Corps division...
Dedicated to Francis Keppel '38, former Dean of Freshmen, and, "having three times as many pictures as any book in history," the '44 Freshman Red Book will be mailed to all subscribers within the next two weeks, it was announced yesterday by A. Leroy Atherton, Editor-in-Chief...
...coverage than any of its predecessors the book brings every sport, except crew up to its Yale meet. Copy and statistics have been cut to a minimum to insure more candid shots of the teams and clubs in action. "Every activity and organizations has been covered and photographed," said Atherton...
Stokes, a 60-year-old house which in its time has published Frances Hodgson Burnett, John Masefield, Gertrude Atherton, Robert 0. Peary, General Pershing, Louis Bromfield, will publish under its own imprint for a while. It brings with it such current authors as Ellery Queen, John Erskine, Eugene Lyons and a strong juvenile list...