Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Left. By Edward William Bok, editor who died last year: $23,718,981. Federal inheritance tax, $3,609,070; State of Pennsylvania, $2.886,730. The largest holding was stock in Curtis Publishing Co. (Ladies' Home Journal, Saturday Evening Post, et al.) valued at $17,445,839
Mechanically the picture was a variation of the "composograph" (faked picture) with which the Macfadden tabloid Evening Graphic used to sensationalize the news. "Composographs" are rarely used these days to simulate actual news photographs. The energy of news photographers and the license taken by tabloid editors make such devices unnecessary...
George F. Baker and William Ziegler Jr., are Founder Members. Associates include such men as J. Pierpont Morgan '89, Vincent Astor, Cornelius N. Bliss '97, Cyrus H. K. Curtis, George Eastman, Francis Lee Higginson '00, Otto H. Kahn, Andrew W. Mellon Hon. '26, John J. Raskob, Jesse Isidor Straus '93...
The Spectator, insurance magazine, made known the names of 391 U. S. citizens carrying at least $1,000,000 worth of life insurance. Top five: Pierre Samuel du Pont, gunpowder maker ($7,000,000) ; John C. Martin of Curtis-Martin Newspapers Inc. ($6,540,000); William Fox, cinemagnate ($6,500...
Sporting Blood (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) has to do with a racehorse named Tommy Boy. Bred on a Kentucky farm, he is sold successively to a pot-bellied stable owner, a spendthrift with a petulant wife, a gambler who dopes him to win a race. When the gambler is murdered after...