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...gallon in town). But whether at the American Club, the fashionable Centre d'Art, the Thorland Club's new gaming casino, or one of Port-au-Prince's two movie houses, the colonist was apt to see the same people-a writer of short stories for Collier's, a retired Marine captain, a rich cosmetics importer, a sculptor or two. Some sailed, some swam, some drove to resorts in the mountains, and some just sat on their porches in the moonlight, sipping rum drinks handed them by white-coated houseboys, listening to the beat...
...five-year-old Sunday supplement Parade was the first of Marshall Field's newspaper ventures to show a profit. Last winter, aiming to keep it showing, Field went shopping for a topflight adman. At Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. he found his man: red-haired Arthur H. Motley, 46, onetime Fuller brushman, who had done wonders as publisher of the American Magazine. To help "Red" Motley make up his mind, Field offered to share Parade's ownership with...
Last week Parade made another raid on the Crowell-Collier reservation. This time Publisher Motley, looking for a new editor, grabbed 33-year-old Ken W. Purdy from his job as editor of Crowell's long-projected international picture magazine. Purdy was tired of waiting for his bosses to decide when to launch their complicated, multilingual project...
Best known in the U.S. for his lavishly detailed anti-Nazi cartoons, which for a time were frequent Collier's cover subjects, and for his 1940 illustrations of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Szyk is now laboring lovingly over illustrations for the Book of Ruth and the Arabian Nights...
...Collier's, ex-Labor Secretary Fanny Perkins gave a glimpse into the Roosevelt political mind: "I have often been asked what Roosevelt thought of his presidential rivals. ... He thought Hoover a solemn defeatist with no consciousness of people as human beings. Alfred Landon, Roosevelt thought, was a nice fellow who didn't know much. He took an immediate liking to Willkie, and he hadn't expected to. ... For Dewey, Roosevelt had little respect. He expected him to make a bad campaign, and was surprised when he made an excellent...