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...confused with Crowell Publishing Co. (American Magazine, Collier's, Woman's Home Companion...
Sued. On Aug. 28, Constance Collier, 50, British actress, for $100,000; and on Aug. 29, Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather, 43, famed British-born cartoonist ("The Better 'Ole," "Old Bill"); for divorce; both by Mrs. Bruce Bairnsfather. Charges: Miss Collier alienated Bairnsfather's affections; Bairnsfather wrote a play with Miss Collier, became intimate...
Above the gabble of minor seers there last week arose the well-respected voice of Col. Leonard Porter Ayres, studious vice president of Cleveland Trust Co. Distinguishing the present world-wide depression from the domestic depressions of 1924 and 1927, Col. Ayres, writing in Collier's, predicted a turning point in the near future. "Now arises the emotion of fear," he said. "Things ,,ere [last spring] brighter looking than they were. Now they look darker than they are. This is the last phase of the depression...
...flat, the weather fair on March 4, 1918, when the Navy's 19,360-ton collier Cyclops put out of Barbados for Baltimore. She was carrying a heavy cargo of Brazilian manganese, badly needed by U. S. steel plants making War munitions. She slipped over the Caribbean horizon and, though no enemy warship was thought to be in the vicinity, she never was heard from again, by wireless or otherwise. Searching craft found no trace of wreckage. Of the 293 people aboard, no body was ever recovered. Said Wartime Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels in his report that...
Engaged. Barron G. Collier Jr., Yale senior, son of the car-card and billboard advertising tycoon; and Miss Helen E. M. Greef, of Manhattan, Smith sophomore...