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Like Bank Night, Roller Derby is a copyrighted name, the product of an inventive cinema salesman from the West Coast. Leo ("Bromo") Seltzer, 32, worked for Universal Pictures Corp., until five years ago when he staged the first commercial Walkathon in Denver. He promoted 22 more, grossed $2,000,000, retired because he felt that Walkathons were becoming vulgar. He inaugurated the Roller Derby in Chicago last August, held two more in Louisville and Kansas City. Roller Derby teams are selected from the Transcontinental Roller Derby Association, formed by Promoter Seltzer last year to help popularize his new pastime...
...Sands Point, L. I. From the estate of his father, who went down with the Lusitania, he got the first installment (about $1,000,000) of a fortune which he will continue to inherit by quarters every four years. From his mother, daughter of the late Captain Isaac Emerson (Bromo Seltzer) of Baltimore, twice married since his father's death, he received the string of horses which she had raced under the name of the Sagamore Stable. An enthusiastic turfman, which the senior Vanderbilt was not, young "Al" promptly set out to enjoy his birthday presents. Because Cavalcade...
...sorry stuff after the "Tintern Abbey," the "Prelude" and the "Ode on Intimations of Immortality." "In fact," as a CRIMSON editor of yore once wrote, "most of Wordsworth's later poems written while he was a stamp-distributor or laureate have to be taken by us moderns with a bromo-seltzer!" This is a just criticism though it be advanced somewhat too vigorously...
...last week, New York's Royal S. Copeland was bumbling along in the Senate about his food & drug bill. A few Senators like Clark of Missouri (home of Listerine), Bailey of North Carolina (home of Vicks) and Tydings of Maryland (home of Bromo Seltzer), were naturally interested in his bill, but the majority practically drowned out the speaker with loud private conversations. Finally Senator Borah, who is a stickler for Senate etiquette, uprose to remark to the presiding officer...
...Best Foods, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet); Erwin Wasey (Real Silk Hosiery, Musterole, Zemo, Bost Toothpaste); N. W. Ayer (Deerfoot Sausage, Eno's Salts, Henry Ford) ; Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (Atwater Kent, Armstrong Cork, Gold Dust, General Electric); Ruthrauff & Ryan (Campbell Soup, Cocomalt, Gillette, Rinso); Stack-Goble (Swift, Freeman Shoes, Bromo-Quinine) ; Newell-Emmett (Sunshine Biscuits, Chesterfields) ; McCann-Erickson (BeechNut Packing, National Biscuit, Vaseline...