Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote Correspondent Leland Stowe of the Chicago Daily News last week after interviewing a batch of prisoners brought in by the unconquered Finns. Correspondent Stowe found them "helpless, tragic wretches. . . . The Russians wore Army overcoats of a cheap, part-wool mixture and uniforms of quilted cotton. . . . None of the men we saw had high boots, but they had ordinary shoes-and several of them, as a result, had feet so frozen they could hardly walk. . . . All said they were reservists, mostly of the class of 1925, and had been called up only three months ago. Most of these men were...
...many a U. S. newspaper reader is the late Heywood Broun's annual Christmas fable (see p. 35). New York commuters know well the editorial, "Is There A Santa Claus?," which the New York Sun has run at Christmas for 42 years (see p. 47). This week, the Chicago Daily News prints a cartoon (first published in 1934) which is on its way to like renown (see cut). The cartoonist: Vaughn Richard Shoemaker,* Chicago political satirist (famed for his mousy little character, "John Q. Public") and an ardent Christian...
...Christian, you're all alone in the world-especially if you work in a newspaper office." Cartoonist Shoemaker took to lunching once a week with a friend who had also been converted. Their lunches expanded, soon became a Gospel Fellowship Club, which today has 800 members in Chicago, 1,200 in other Midwest cities...
...Chicago Fellows meet for 50? lunches at the Brevoort Hotel on Tuesdays, listen to speeches on "How I Came to Jesus," enjoy a half-hour of "Christian fellowship." Most of the Fellows are white-collar workers, with a scattering of executives like Board Chairman James Lewis Kraft of Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp., Vice President Frank Flagg Taylor of Continental Illinois Bank. Still spark plug of the club is Cartoonist Shoemaker, who contributes drawings to the club paper, lately packed a Tuesday meeting by demonstrating the "Shoescope," a $1,500 contraption which projects his cartoons, as he draws them, upon...
When Lyle Manly Spencer and Robert Kenneth Burns were at college (University of Washington), they were a famed world-touring debating team, and Burns was also U. S. champion (so named by Pictorial Review) at selling magazine subscriptions. They were graduate students at the University of Chicago when they raised $16,000 from their friends and started Science Research Associates in a Chicago office. Their theory was that there were plenty of jobs to be had if people knew where to look. Now they have 55 researchers and writers studying industrial trends, new businesses, new professions, the 22,000 ways...