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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a newsgatherer sent in his card to see Convict Sinclair during visiting hours, he got back a curt message: "Not at home to the press...
Born in Logan, Utah, in 1895, John Gilbert left the traveling stock company of his mother (Ida Adair) for a Califor nia military academy, then dusted desks in a rubber company's western office until his ramrod bearing and bright eye got him jobs as a film extra. Becoming famed in The Big Parade, he played in a series of films with Greta Garbo. Known, like half a dozen other actors, as the "screen's greatest lover," he had been married twice before - once to a girl who sang songs at a training camp where he was stationed...
Paul Scott Mowrer, Chicago Daily News, got the press correspondence prize-$500 cash...
Like Otto Kahn, Albert Kahn came to the U. S. from Germany (in 1879) but with no banking prospects nor heiress to wed. A job got he in an architect's office, and many a book he thumbed. At 26 he was a practicing architect and main support of his family, sending through college four brothers and one sister. At office at eight, he often leaves at seven. During working hours, his coat is always off, his hair is always mussed. He is a member of six golf clubs. But he has never had a golf club...
...Broun holds no less than 100 shares, the purchase apparently having been inspired by the 500,000 share turnover (TIME, May 13) during one day last fortnight. Mr. Broun bought the preferred, which has been almost stationary around 8. With his Arkansas Natural Gas, his public morality got once again all entangled in the tentacles of the Superpower Octopus. For Arkansas Natural Gas is a subsidiary of unique Henry Doherty's Cities Service Co., great among U. S. utility companies...