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When the Reader's Digest (circ. 16,000,000) decided to run Columnist Billy Rose's autobiography, Wine, Women and Words, in some of its foreign editions, it ran smack against a language barrier. Who could manage to translate what Rose himself called "grab-bag grammar and tipsy tavernacular...
Betty Lou Amster is the only woman police reporter Louisville has ever had. After breaking into journalism on an Indiana newspaper, Mrs. Amster landed on the Louisville Times (circ. 167,607) five years ago, made good on the police and courthouse beats. She was later moved to general assignments, especially sob-sister stories, and became dissatisfied with her job and herself. At 24, Betty Lou felt that she had "run out of learning," because, married at 16, she had never gone beyond high school. Last month, Reporter Amster buttonholed Publisher Mark Ethridge (who also runs the Louisville Courier-Journal...
...Practices? The Horvitz monopoly was threatened when the Federal Communications Commission licensed radio stations in Mansfield and later in Elyria (ten miles from Lorain). From the start, Mansfield's WMAN and Elyria's WEOL were fought by the Horvitz papers-the Mansfield News-Journal (circ. 26,000) and the Lorain Journal (circ. 21,000). Merchants complained to the federal government that both papers refused to mention the radio stations, and canceled or turned down newspaper advertising contracts with businessmen who bought radio time. When the Horvitz brothers applied for licenses to start their own radio stations, they were...
...crusade against gambling, the Atlanta Journal (circ. 246,000) last week printed the names and addresses of 1,500 owners and operators of slot machines, which are illegal in Georgia. The Journal got the names by checking on who had paid the federal stamp tax on the machines. High on the list was Atlanta's Capital City Club. President of the Capital City Club: George C. Biggers. President of the Atlanta Journal: George C. Biggers...
Dandified John Taylor was musing over the fashion findings turned up in the current issue of his magazine Tailor & Cutter. The sprightliest of all British trade papers, outspoken Tailor & Cutter (circ. 16,000) has been scolding the sloppy dressers of the world since the 1860s when it found that the "beauty and symmetry" of American frock coats were being "nullified through advancing the scye [i.e., armhole] beyond a point absolutely required by the form and size of the figure." In recent years it has turned its batteries of disapproval on the baggy pants of some of Britain...