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...yesterday morning I get up and there starting me in the face are two of 'em all different. Now I'm an average guy, just a genial backer, and I will read, a 'Poon, but not two, never...
...into splinters. The glider plummeted crazily 1,500 feet to earth. Debris and bodies were thrown 50 ft. into the air. All ten passengers were killed instantly. Among them were St. Louis' 67-year-old reform Mayor William Dee Becker, Major William B. Robertson, pioneer aviation enthusiast and backer of Lindbergh's Paris flight, and other top city officials. The glider ride was the climax of a demonstration by the Army's Troop Carrier Command; the tragedy was watched by 4,000, including wives of the victims...
Married. Dorothy Schiff Hall Backer, 39, owner and publisher of New York's pale pink Post; and Theodore Olin Thackrey, 42, the Post's editor since 1942; each for the third time; a week after she divorced former Post Publisher George Backer; in Manhattan...
Vincent Youmans, veteran hit composer (Tea For Two, Hallelujah, Great Day, Without A Song), was back on Broadway, with plans and a backer, nearly ten years after t.b. had put him out of action. His backer: Doris Duke Cromwell (see col. 1). Among his plans: two musicomedies (Good Neighbors and Joe), a cinebiography of Tchaikovsky...
...result is pallid fare. But This Week, now eight years old, is a very profitable venture. Last year its advertising revenue reached $7,000,000, and member papers shared profits greatly exceeding the price they paid (as little as $7.50 per 1,000 copies) for carrying the magazine. Backer of This Week is old (79) Joseph Palmer Knapp, chief stockholder of Crowell Publishing Co. (Collier's, etc.), who also own Alco-Gravure, world's biggest rotogravure printers, which prints This Week...