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...Also acquired in 1931 was Liberty, now the big façade of the Macfadden publishing structure. Publishers Joseph Medill Patterson and Robert Rutherford McCormick could not make it pay. Under the direction of kinetic Editor Charles Fulton Oursler,* who runs the magazine mostly by teletype from West Falmouth, Mass., Liberty (circulation: 2,505,302) is now believed to be in the black...
...Reich rail roads who was President of the second World Power Conference in Berlin six years ago; Japan's beaming Professor Masawo Kamo, who has a flair for oratory in broken English accompanied by dra matic gestures; Britain's horsey-looking Evelyn Hugh Boscawen, Viscount Falmouth, Governor of the Imperial College of Science & Technology and Alderman of London; Sir Harold Hartley, round-faced research director of the London Midland & Scottish Railway; Sir Archibald Page, smart technician who is head of the County of London Electric Supply Co.; Mrs. Gertrude Ruth Ziani de Ferranti, widow of England...
...against too much governmental restriction on utilities. Switzerland's Le Maitre declared that 98% of his country's homes were electrified, that many electric companies were owned partly by private investors and partly by local governments and the question of public ownership did not worry anyone. Viscount Falmouth, nicely neutral on the surface, explained 1 Britain's system of allowing utilities a 7% profit and of requiring five-sixths of all profits over 7% to be used for reducing rates...
...Portland, Me.. James Morrill, 11, helped convict his mother of murder by telling how, after she had killed his father with an ax in their shack on Falmouth's Underwitted Road, she made her small son help trundle the body down to the cellar in his toy cart. "She asked me to help bury him," said James Morrill. "I threw on a few shovels of dirt, but I didn't feel like doing...
...left side of her mouth straightened by saying she prefers it crooked. Studio officials last autumn persuaded her to have a mole on the left side of her face removed. She disappeared for four days until the mole had completely vanished. In 1931, while she was acting at West Falmouth, Mass., she married a member of the company named Henry Fonda, now appearing in Manhattan in New Faces. They were divorced last winter. She makes $1,200 a week, banks $1,000, likes to cook chicken livers and sweetbreads, enjoys fishing and is agreeable to hooking her own worms...