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Sued for Divorce. Bette Davis (real name: Ruth Elizabeth Davis), 30, famed cinemactress: by her onetime-bandmaster and adman husband, Harmon Oscar ("Ham") Nelson Jr.; in Hollywood. His complaint: his wife was so engrossed in her profession that she "neglected and failed to perform her duties as a wife," flew into rages when asked to exhibit evidence of conjugal affection...
...Secretary Wallace signed a Federal-State milk marketing agreement which 39,000 dairymen had approved 6-to-1. Thus the world's largest milk market (6,500,000 qt. a day), New York, became the 22nd district to get such a plan. Marketing Specialist Erskine Harmon was appointed Federal administrator to police the New York industry and maintain the established minimum price paid to farmers (base: $2.45 a cwt.). In drafting the New York program, designed to settle the longtime controversy between farmers and milk distributors in New York City's milk-shed, everyone but distributors (Borden, Sheffield...
While the silence in the musty rifle range under Memorial Hall was shattered time and time again by reverberating explosions, A. Harmon Hall '38 won the "grande finale of annual wide and handsome" shooting match of the pistol team...
...born poor, never went to high school, started his ushering career as a sideline to being a helper on a department store truck. He found ushering generally inefficient, characterized by stupid or unpleasant workers who made their living on tips for showing balcony patrons to orchestra seats. From Paddy Harmon, manager of the Chicago Stadium, Andy got his first big job; was soon so successful that Chicago hoodlums demanded a cut. He beat up their emissary. Four mobsters then tried to shoot him, but he and two of his brothers gave all four a beating. Usher Frain was never troubled...
Last week, when the February issue appeared, announcing Reuel Durkee Harmon as its new publisher, the Farmer's Wife had earned clear title to fame as one of the country's biggest little-known publications, the only women's magazine written exclusively for farm readers, with a 1,150,000 circulation concentrated in the Midwest and Great Lakes area, an annual revenue of $1,200,000. The late Mr. Webb had long since (1915) passed Webb Publishing Company to Mr. Klein and Albert H. Harmon. The new publisher is Mr. Harmon's only...