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...Sure Bait. In Superior, Wis., Mildred Worm agreed to marry David Hook...
...minded Norman Anthony made humor-magazine history. In 1922 he became editor of Judge. Within a year he lifted its sagging circulation from 30,000 to 100,000 by substituting cartoons for most of its heavy-footed text. The old Life lured him away with the then-unheard-of bait of $35,000 a year and 10% of the profits. Anthony lifted Life's face. He put its dignified owner, Charles Dana Gibson, back to work at his trade of illustrator, dropped Walter Winchell, took on Odd Mclntyre and jacked circulation from 40,000 to 100,000 within...
Much of the book is dull. Most of it is silly. And the publishers, having blurbed it "a Quaker Constant Nymph," hope that most readers will swarm to it like crabs to gamy bait...
Most of the major-leaguers who fell for the bait of outsize, tax-free Mexican salaries were Latins who did not look too bad under the pitiful lights of wartime U.S. ball, but would spend a lot of their time on the bench in 1946. Best known: the Giants' Napoleon Reyes and Danny Gardella, the Athletics' Roberto Estalella, the White Sox' Alejandro Carrasquel, the Dodgers' Luis Olmo...
Agriculture's recommendation: rural communities should do more than just ask for doctors. The communities should offer the prospective country medico some substantial bait: an attractive home and office, traveling expenses and a guaranteed annual income...