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...David H. Taylor (H), 15-8, 8-15, 15-11, 15-7; Carl 8. Oakman, Jr. (H) defeated J. Carr (N), 14-16, 15-10, 15-8, 15-9; R. Coombs (N) defeated Robert M. Mitchell (H), 15-12, 15-7, 15-10; George F. Tyler (H) defeated N. Burnett (N), 15-8, 11-15, 13-15, 15-13, 15-9; Hendrik De Kruif (H) defeated F. Atwood...
...where it was snapped up by small energetic Club Aluminum Utensil Co. of Chicago. A similar machine is manufactured by National Die Casting Co. to sell at Macy's for $3.94. In boom times Club Aluminum, a kitchen utensil company organized ten years ago by a hillbilly preacher named Burnett, sold $35,000,000 worth of heavy-cast aluminum utensils to nearly 2,000,000 people. Its salesmen went from house to house inviting housewives to give luncheons prepared in Club Aluminum pots and paid for by the company. After a successful meal the salesmen took orders. But this merchandising...
...GOODHUES OF SINKING CREEK- W. R. Burnett-Harper...
Though the College of Critics last week continued to look down its collective nose at Author William Riley Burnett, readers-at-large continued to lend him their ears. Accused on the one hand of "commercializing " the Hemingway manner and hailed on the other as a story-teller who does not set himself up to be anything fancier, Author Burnett never goes behind the facts of what he has to tell, but his facts are telling. The Goodhues of Sinking Creek is only a long short story, but its rapid narrative covers as much ground as many a full-length novel...
...ELLIS BURNETT...