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...Trade Journals, Inc. When the last hammerblow had fallen, the properties were in the following hands: Publisher Howard Myers bought back his Architectural Forum, aristocratic journal published in two semi-annual volumes with a yearly subscription price of $20; Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. of.Chicago (classified telephone directories) bought National Cleaner & Dyer; Industrial Press (publishers of Machinery) bought Heating & Ventilating; Interior Architecture & Decoration bought Good Furniture & Decoration; a newly organized Chicago group called Neyocy Co. bought the 13 other periodicals (Motorship, Diesel Power, Fishing Gazette, Canning Age, Butchers' Advocate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Odds & Ends: Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...outside Atlanta, by singers from other colored churches. St. Peter is Henry Mathews, a onetime slave who is sexton of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. He wears white robes, golden keys around his neck and his own long, crinkly beard. Pilgrim of Determination is Esther Jones, a dry-cleaner; Millionaire is Hubert Jones, an Atlanta barber; Devil is George A. Pullum, a railway postal clerk. Reader or interpreter, who also helps guide the action of the play, has been Estella Z. Wright, 20-year-old Negro stenographer, soon to join the staff of Pittsburgh's Negro Courier. None...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heaven Bound | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

...forth between two rooms of the Wardell Hotel. They were demonstrating for the first time a new radio typewriter, called a Watsongraph, to representatives from the U. S. Government, the Michigan State Police, the Press. One man was the hotel owner, white-haired Fred Wardell, president of Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co. He had furnished the money to exploit the new invention. The other man. who inspected his guests owlishly through horn-rimmed glasses, was the inventor, Glenn W. Watson, onetime salesman. Mr. Watson, new to inventing, had learned about electricity only three years ago while he played with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radio Writer | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

Chaplin films there are touches of smut: Chaplin as a busy street cleaner seeing an endless troop of mules, hurrying in the opposite direction, only to meet an elephant; Chaplin acting girlish toward a prize fighter stripping for battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 9, 1931 | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...Stewart is permitted to come to the surface: Mr. Haddock (Leon Errol) wrestling with a brakeman in an empty car; Mrs. Haddock (Zazu Pitts) overcome with seasickness induced by autosuggestion while the boat is still at the dock; both of them indulging in polite social chatter with a street-cleaner to whom they have been introduced by a taxidriver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 9, 1931 | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

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