Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Helen Hull Jacobs, daughter of a well-to-do mining engineer, was born in Globe, Ariz, in the summer of 1908. Her family spent the following winter in California in a house rented from Author Willard Huntington Wright (S. S. Van Dine). At the age of six months, Helen was presented to Tennist May Sutton, an acquaintance of her mother. Just before the War, the Jacobs family moved to San Francisco. When she was 13, Mr. Jacobs gave his daughter an old tennis racquet, taught her how to use it. The day she won a set from him, she entered...
...curiosity was aroused. Sportswriter Tunis, who is not only a prime authority on tennis but the author of many a thoughtful magazine survey of U. S. education, inspected 540 more such intimate autobiographies. Likewise stirred was his Classmate Laurence Leathe Winship, scholarly Sunday editor of the Boston Globe, who on John Tunis' suggestion sent the Class of 1911 a supplementary questionnaire. From these sources and from his own wide acquaintance in Manhattan's Harvard Club, John R. Tunis last week presented a full-length picture of the successes, failures, aspirations and accomplishments of Harvard University's Class...
This surprising state of affairs had its beginning last spring when the staid Globe-Democrat decided to have a fling at big-time circulation promotion. Scheme adopted was one invented and successfully used by the rowdy New York Post and sold for $26,167 through its Publishers' Service Co. to the provincial paper. Known as the "Famous Names" cartoon contest, the circulation-catcher presented 84 drawings, one each day, by Cartoonist Peter Arno and a daily list from which readers were to guess the correct picture title. Like most such schemes, "Famous Names" was easy at first, soon grew...
Dazzled by such headlines as "YOUR QUICK WAY TO FORTUNE," "A CHILD OF 12 MIGHT BE AWARDED FIRST PRIZE!" and "YOU DESERVE SOME EASY MONEY," some 45,200 St. Louisans stuck through the contest at $1.20 each, racked their brains for a dozen weeks over the Globe-Democrat's "Famous Names." First trouble came when a Roman Catholic priest denounced the saucy drawings of Artist Arno. Soon the rival Star-Times, which once had an option on the contest itself, and Post-Dispatch began to hint that the contest was unfair. Finally two St. Louisans tied for first prize...
...trial, a saddened circulation manager testified that the imported contest had made the Globe-Democrat no money. In fact, if contest advertising were figured as an expense, the Globe-Democrat was $38,296 out of pocket. If the Globe-Democrat loses its case, it could be exiled from Missouri. Actually, the Attorney General, if he wins, may do no more than warn its publisher to conduct no more name games...