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...Oregon State Game Farm is now trying to rear grey partridges on a large scale. This week the commission meets in Manhattan to elect another president in Senator Hawes's place. Among founders of the More Game Birds in America foundation are Publisher Thomas Hambley Beck of Collier's Weekly; Col. Arthur Foran, Comptroller of the Port of the City of New York...
Died. John Lee Mahin, 61, advertising man, onetime vice president of Street Railways Co. and of Barren G. Collier, Inc., president of John Lee Mahin, Inc.; in Manhattan. Tobacco and liquor accounts he never handled, respecting his mother's wishes...
...Author. Mark Sullivan, 56, Harvardman, onetime lawyer, onetime editor of Collier's Weekly, is a conservative Republican dean among Washington special correspondents (his paper: New York Herald Tribune). Other books: The Great Adventure at Washington, The Turn of the Century, America Finding Herself...
...space on express trucks was sold to advertisers. On one side of all the company's 8,000-odd vehicles was slapped an advertisement for Wrigley's gum; on the other, for Chesterfield cigarets. Each space costs $3 per week. The advertising is being directed by Barron Collier, president of Barron G. Collier, Inc. This company has rights to almost all transportation media in the U. S., Mexico, Cuba, Canada. It places advertising in 85,000 cars with a monthly circulation of over 1,200,000,000 people...
...America team was originated in 1886 in an obscure magazine by the late Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney. In 1889 the feature was transferred to now-defunct Harper's Weekly under Mr. Camp's name, and in 1897 to Collier's. The fame of Camp maintained the standing of the feature. After his death in 1925 the selections were ably handled by Grantland Rice, but the basic idea was openly condemned by coaches and experts as too restrictive, bad for football. Partly as a protest against the notion of Collier's omniscience, partly...