Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whiz promotion scheme to needle circulation, Hearst's Cosmopolitan Magazine named one Isabel Caldwell McDougal of Greenwood, Miss., "Miss Cosmopolitan." Next issue Cosmopolite Faith Baldwin, one of the judges, twittered: "She hasn't an atom of classic beauty but she's as pretty as spring in the South. . . . She has a certain pixie charm hard to define. She reminds me a little of Helen Hayes...
Dean Cornwell (47), learned illustration under Pyle-Pupil Harvey Dunn and about 1916 got a free hand from the late Editor Ray Long to become Red Book's (later Cosmopolitan's) pride and joy. His illustrations for such fictioneers as Blasco Ibanez, E. M. Hull, Arthur Somers Roche and Somerset Maugham were as exotically escapist as the tales themselves, and his studio became famous for its clutter of authentic props. In 1922 tall, enthusiastic, travel-loving Artist Cornwell went to London to work with Frank Brangwyn, has since incorporated that decorator's style with...
When Chicago held its fair, the whole city was steamed up-not only the concessionaires and tradesmen, direct beneficiaries, but citizens whose enthusiasm was born of civic pride. The anomaly of the New York fair is that most New Yorkers have been genuinely bored with it. For the cosmopolitan conglomeration that is New York City has less civic interest, is less given to boosterism, than any place in the country. The sole reason New York has a fair, let alone the biggest in history, is that a small, hardheaded group high-pressured the city, the nation and most of Europe...
...Believe It or Not") Ripley from King Features Syndicate, $149,777; New York Daily News Managing Editor Harvey Deuel, $130,567; Publisher Frank Gannett from the Gannett Co. Inc., $60,000; General Manager Kent Cooper of the Associated Press, $63,947. President Marion (Davies) Douras of Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions Inc. (cinema distributors) was paid...
...simple and earthy existence 'midst the pine trees and the birds. No more of the violent college spirit, the "small college" attitude. For Dartmouth men come from the mad whirl of city life and know what the bright lights look like. "Let's have a new Dartmouth tradition, a cosmopolitan, tweed dressed, and smartly polished one." Harvard, once a "small college," has turned suburban without that sense of shame from selling out! May Dartmouth...