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...earnestness and selfimportance, the young man canvasses for subscriptions to a four-page weekly, wheedles the corner grocer for an advertisement, makes himself generally a nuisance. But not every juvenile journalist is not to be taken seriously. For example: Charles ("Buddy") Bacon, 11, and his sister Marcia, 12, of Douglaston...
Buddy and Marcia, manager and editor of the Douglaston Weekly, filed suit against Petro Oil Burners & Fuel Co. of Jamaica for nonpayment of an $182 advertising account (TIME, Sept. 29). Last week Justice Thomas C. Kadien Jr. in Jamaica Municipal Court awarded judgment to the plaintiffs. The oil company had contended that its representative, one Charles Matthews, was without authority to contract for advertising. But Justice Kadien ruled the company responsible, inasmuch as it was aware of the appearance of the advertisement for 14 consecutive issues yet made no effort to cancel...
...Jamaica (L. I.) Municipal Court last week Charles ("Buddy") Bacon, n, sat facing a row of executives of Petro Oil Burners & Fuel Oil Co. of Jamaica. The oil executives were defendants. Buddy, as part owner and business manager of the Douglaston Weekly (his sister, Marcia, 12, is editor) was plaintiff, suing for $182 payment for advertising. Editor Bacon testified that a Mr. Matthews, erstwhile Petro salesman, asked to take a full-page advertisement for 14 issues. "I argued with him because I knew I'd have to make the paper bigger. I go to school and I have plenty...
Into a harbor in the Azores last week sailed the Carlsark, 46 ft. ketch. Above the gleaming hull rose four tanned sailor-men-all from Cornell University. Carl L. Weagant, last year's football manager, of Douglaston, L. I., was the skipper. Said he: "My crew did not suspect my intention of crossing the Atlantic until we were halfway to the Azores, seven days...
...another. Time-thinking immediately asks-how long will these men and forces stay where you have placed them, how long will the relationship last? For while everybody exists in space, nobody lives in space." To our TIME-thinking magazine-a long life and a merry one. LESTER LEAKE RILEY Douglaston...