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...Draper, Chairman, Miss Ruth Chamberlin; J. O. Blckford, Miss Deborah Tappan; H. Wendt, Miss Phyllis Fanning; G. L. Russell, Jr., Miss Olive Johnson; R. J. Dunkle, Jr., Miss Ruth Litchfield; J. B. Durant, Miss Ruth Holmes; Richard Donham, Miss Martha Benedict; J. H. Burrage, Miss Elizabeth Shepard...
...with Corrine Griffith as many times as he says he has. Christopher Morley undoubtedly has a very kind face but he does not appear to be as whimsical as his publisher's blurbs would have led his readers to believe. And, as the Books man points out, will Durant's goatee is splendid goatee as such but its insouciance little becomes a best selling philosopher...
...advertising man offer you his compliments on the sterling honesty with which your magazine is edited? I refer to two items appearing on your business page, TIME, April 18, in which you state that William C. Durant "spent $21,000 to advertise in 48 newspapers in 29 states" that Sir Charles Higham has come to the United States to "spend 5200,000 on advertising India tea in U. S. newspapers...
...Ellison DuRant Smith, Senator from South Carolina, when asked last week to pick the 1928 Democratic nominee for President, said: "I should think he [the nominee 1 would be a dark horse, but not a dead horse. We have a morgue full of dead horses in our party...
...Even Mr. Durant's explanation of why he is promoting the new Star Six and backing Consolidated Motors Inc. met with dubiety. He advertised: "The name Durant shall stand for something better than a football in Wall Street." The New York Times writer knew that, even though Mr. Durant's name may be a football of Wall Street, Mr. Durant himself is one of its most skilled footballers; hurt in a railroad accident and bedridden, yet he bravely persisted in his stock market activities (TIME, Feb. 1, 1926) ; practically impoverished after he was ousted from General Motors...