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...narrowest escape came last spring when he placed a small advertisement in the London Evening News inviting "young ladies seeking adventure'' to meet him in lower Regent Street. At the appointed hour, Johnston was swamped by 1,000 adventure-minded females, who blocked traffic in Piccadilly Circus. He finally had to be rescued by police...
Papers in the chain have been changing their makeup, dumping the old circus & gingerbread style that was a Hearst trademark. In its place have come cleaner headline type, fewer screaming bannerlines and a more up-to-date, readable layout. Gigantic cartoons and other boiler plate that once poured out of Hearst headquarters are now passed up by editors whenever they will, and even such well-entrenched Hearst columnists as Westbrook Pegler and George Sokolsky may be dropped or trimmed as editors desire...
...perhaps question the justification of a mass turnout of three or four thousand students (as was had on occasions), marching down Oxford and Regent Streets, across Piccadilly Circus and on through the center of London. This accompanied by "removing" of policeman's helmets, dousing them with water and other highly irregular actions--even pulling loose the trolley pole of trackless trolleys; an action which a student here now regrets...
...share of luck, too. His uncle, suspicious of everybody, and bitter, in his last years disinherited him and left his $23½ million fortune to the state of Florida. A syndicate, headed by North, bought back part of the estate-including John Ringling's 30% of the circus stock-for $1,250,000 in 1947. A section of what was supposed to be worked-out oil land in Oklahoma was included in the deal. Soon after North had closed with the state, three deep wells came in on the property. The Rockland Oil Co. has given North back...
...HOSPITALITY is lavish and memorable when he entertains in his uncle's old private railroad car, the Jomar, which now stands permanently in a barn at the circus winter quarters in Sarasota. The guests are warmed up in the car's pale green drawing room with North's own brand of Old-Fashioneds, then the party moves to the dining room, which is dominated by a large mural of Lady Godiva setting out on her ride. A French chef produces a four-or five-course meal (with three vintage wines), and the meal is rounded out with...