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Larry Lane visited the Coast as adman for Better Homes and Gardens. He was born in Horton, Kans., had jogged around Minnesota with a horse and buggy selling Keen Kutter knives, got his learning at Drake University. Like many another Coast visitor, Larry Lane saw at once how vastly Far Western modes of living, eating, fun-making differed from those of the rest of the U. S. When he bought Sunset (largely for its established name) in 1928, he determined to publish a magazine capitalizing on the Far West's insularity. His first move was to slash the price...
...complete change of windows, usually stay up all one night at least with a squad of carpenters, painters, dressers, electricians. Every window display is tied up with merchandising, but this tie-up in the last few years has changed. Display directors owe half their fun to a Depression-born business axiom: "Sell the store as well as the merchandise...
Growing Pains. "I was a worker's son," says Odets, "until the age of 12." His father had sold papers, peddled salt; his mother had worked in a factory. During Clifford's childhood the family shuttled back & forth between Philadelphia-where he was born in 1906-and The Bronx, where they settled down. The father slowly rose in the world, ceased to be a worker, today is very well...
...conductor: 27-year-old German-born Erich Leinsdorf, promoted from the ranks of the assistant conductors where he made several sensational appearances last year...
...campuses rang with denunciations of Adolf Hitler, the Führer last week decorated five U. S. pedagogues with the Order of Merit of the German Eagle. The New York Times promptly wired the professors to find out if they would accept the awards. A reply came from Iowa-born Karl Frederick Geiser, a retired Oberlin College professor whose highest previous honor was a teaching fellowship in Germany during 1936-37. Author of a work called Democracy versus Autocracy (1918) and of a translation of Sombart's Deutscher Sozialismus (1937), Professor Geiser wanted to keep his medal (first-class...