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Sleek, Bourbon-faced John Kendrick Bangs, who died in 1922, was a humorist, a lecturer, an editor, a critic, a librettist, a politician-and successful as all six. Lillian Russell played in his chipper Gilbertian revision of The School for Scandal. As a lecturer he earned $500 a week for discreet blends of laughter and sentiment on such subjects as Salubrities (nice celebrities) I Have Met. As an editor he diapered the old Life's first years, brightened up "The Editor's Drawer" of Harper's Monthly, ran Harper's Weekly until Colonel George Harvey crowded...
That Brazil, with a potential rubber-growing area of 1,400,000 square miles out of the world's 2,300,000, now supplies less than 1% of world production nettles President Vargas. That bright, chipper dictator has two ideas: that war stoppage of East Indies rubber supply might restore wild rubber's lost market; that if Brazilian rubber can be grown on Malayan plantations, it can be grown on Brazilian plantations as well. To be sure Henry Ford's Brazilian rubber plantations have encountered many difficulties, little commercial success so far, but Vargas thinks this...
When people wonder, their leaders speak. First to speak up last week was Adolf Hitler. One afternoon he appeared unexpectedly before a hand-picked Nazi audience in Berlin's Sportspalast and strode jauntily out on the platform. He looked chipper and fit. He had a fresh haircut, his mustache had just been trimmed. His job was to explain why Germany was being bombed with such disquieting regularity, and Orator Hitler did a good...
...blame. Last year in Cook County the Society distributed 530,897 Bibles-whole and in parts. Last week, in the Chicago Temple (which occupies the first three floors of a 21-story Loop skyscraper), the Society celebrated its 100th birthday with a rousing service. Keynoter was its chipper, peppery mainspring and secretary, the Rev. Jesse Lee McLaughlin...
...annual meat bill of a family of five by buying a side of beef wholesale at a little better than half the retail price and having a locker plant's butcher cut and freeze it. Apostle of this drive to invade the cities is stumpy, chipper, leather-lunged Alfred Michael Reilly, Baker's Chicago sales engineer, who has peddled ice machinery for 27 years. Weekly he delivers lectures to persuade Midwest businessmen to scrape up the average $10,000 needed to build a locker plant. Some sales points in his favor...