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Responding to the Head Man's fillip, the groggy Fair perked up last week end to produce the largest Saturday crowd to date; 256,253 paid admissions. 55,247 passes. Led by New York City's violent little Mayor LaGuardia, over 70% of the visitors used the $1 bargain tickets...
...added fillip was tossed in by a Republican, New York's liberal National Committeeman Kenneth Simpson: "The Republicans will have to face . . . Franklin Delano Roosevelt," who "will be no cinch...
...Wallack's Theatre on Broadway one summer night in 1888. It was a gala baseball night in honor of the visiting Chicago White Stockings and the management had clipped the tragi-comic verses out of the San Francisco Examiner for young Hopper to deliver as an added fillip between the acts of the operetta, Prince Methusalem...
...solid base from which to jump. . . . Photo-Facts supplies a good firm groundwork of useful information from which to 'jump' accurately." Photo-Facts considered useful such stories as "White Man Westward" (Lewis & Clark), "Termite Menace," "Poe's Great Balloon Hoax," "Football From Pagan Rites." Added fillip was its "Newsstand University" section in which Dale Carnegie again bobbed up, this time with "Putting Yourself Across": typical Carnegie tip: "Do not fuss with your necktie or clothes-be always neatly dressed and let your hands hang at your sides." Professor Harold F. Clark of Columbia and Dr. Carl Norcross...
...prize-winning letters or the names of the judges. Second prize of $30,000 went to Pharmacist Florence Zimmermann in Peoria, Ill. Third and fourth prizes, $10,000 each, were won by an automobile accessory salesman in Seattle and a chemical engineer in Philadelphia. Impressed by the mighty fillip the contest had given to its sales, Lorillard confounded almost all observers by announcing this week a "bigger & better" contest. For a list of prizes totaling $250,000. Old Gold fans will be invited to strain their brains, not on puzzles this time, but on the invention of apt repartee bringing...