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After the receipt of the above dispatch, it was learned yesterday at Dean Malott's office that the Harvard Advertising Prizes are awarded to the firms which submit the illustrations and not to the designers. This statement refutes the assertion of Mr. Kent...
Great as has been the discussion concerning the despoliation of Europe's old masters by Americans, a still more furious storm threatens on the horizon. According to a recent dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune, an American connoisseur of art has carried from the shores of France no less than a historic relic of primary importance, a monument to French Democracy--in fact, the very bath tub in which the great Marat was stabbed by Charlotte Corday. This new fad of Americans no longer to confine themselves to purely artistic objects and to enter the field of historic memorials...
...Dispatch. Young Joseph Pulitzer was a familiar figure in St. Louis, and somewhat alarming, when he founded the Post-Dispatch. Born in Mako, Hungary, in 1847, of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, he came to the U. S. to enlist in the Union cavalry during the Civil War. When the war was over he found life difficult, and eventually put in practice the advice of an editor somewhat less famed than he himself was to become: Greeley, with his "Go West...
...when the Dispatch was knocked down at a sheriff's sale on the courthouse steps to the highest bidder, Pulitzer had $2,500 to pay for it, $2,700 to run it. He bought. Three hundred dollars of his capital he reserved against the expenses of the forthcoming birth of his eldest child. With the rest, he made newspaper history...
...will Pulitzer left extraordinary benefactions, most of them secret. Among them was a provision setting aside a percentage of the total net revenue of both the World and the Post-Dispatch, to be divided annually between a certain few executives, in addition to their salaries...