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Hall in all, Says says by fourth Courter score will be 27-13 Orr Elser he's wrong. Hall-ett may be, who knows--if We-aver get Cohen...
...friends . . . may think we have had an overdose of proximity with the famous Roosevelt personality. It is fine to be able to report that the President is in great fettle, hale and hearty, imbued with confidence, cheerful and relaxed, enjoying life and his big job to the fullest. We aver that our opinions are based upon broad observations. . . . But we can't deny that we are also influenced by the calm confidence of the President. He isn't selling the country short, and neither...
...letter encloses a list of opportunities, and the managers aver that they will be "glad to discuss with you personally any of these opportunities, and wish to assure you that an interview puts you under no obligations whatever...
...Herald Tribune and The Publishers' Weekly. They give a clear picture of U. S. week-to-week buying of new books. But do they give an accurate indication of U. S. literary taste? Librarians (who hold that Mark Twain is still the most widely-read U. S. author) aver that they do not. Publishers of inexpensive reprints are inclined to agree with the librarians. Releasing figures last fortnight on the sale of his Modern Library series (95? and $1.25), Publisher Bennett Cerf disclosed that Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is the most popular of the Modern Library...
...Ethel V. Mars, president of Mars, Inc. (Milky Way chocolate bars). More famed for her racing stable than her corporate connection, which she inherited (TIME, Jan. 4), Mrs. Mars was paid $120,000. Not far below Mrs. Mars came Mrs. Lillian S. Dodge, cosmetician president of Harriet Hubbard Aver, Inc. ($100,000). At that rate it took Mrs. Dodge more than two years to earn the $213,286 fine she had to pay in 1930 for trying to smuggle in trunkloads of French furs, silks, satins and jewelry...