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...time had its "boy editor." With a great earnestness and selfimportance, the young man canvasses for subscriptions to a four-page weekly, wheedles the corner grocer for an advertisement, makes himself generally a nuisance. But not every juvenile journalist is not to be taken seriously. For example: Charles ("Buddy") Bacon, 11, and his sister Marcia, 12, of Douglaston...
...JOHN L. BACON President Boulder Dam Association San Diego, Calif...
...Jamaica (L. I.) Municipal Court last week Charles ("Buddy") Bacon, n, sat facing a row of executives of Petro Oil Burners & Fuel Oil Co. of Jamaica. The oil executives were defendants. Buddy, as part owner and business manager of the Douglaston Weekly (his sister, Marcia, 12, is editor) was plaintiff, suing for $182 payment for advertising. Editor Bacon testified that a Mr. Matthews, erstwhile Petro salesman, asked to take a full-page advertisement for 14 issues. "I argued with him because I knew I'd have to make the paper bigger. I go to school and I have plenty...
Died. Frank Richards Ford, 59, Manhattan engineer, member of the famed engineering firm Ford, Bacon & Davis, a director of L. C. Smith and Corona Typewriters, Inc., consulting engineer and director of six other companies, planner of the Philadelphia rapid transit system and the unification of electric street railways in Chicago; after an operation, at the Medical
...Floor Below." There a baroque, gold-turbaned widow (Lilian Braithwaite) with an Elinor Glynt in her eye, is trying to keep her daughter from getting married pending her own nuptials. The substance of this vaudeville skit is slim but Playwright Novello patiently works over it until, like the breakfast bacon & eggs, both tales come out about even. A good deal of the action in the Kennard flat upstairs is valid and affecting, in spite of its antiquated situation. And some of the comedy in the flat downstairs is funny, if overlong. At least, audiences felt they had gotten their money...