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Head man of the candy industry does not consider himself a candy man at all. But over 60% of Milton Snavely Hershey's business is milk chocolate bars, though he has not advertised his products since 1909. In Hershey. Pa., the air is sweet for miles around, most of the profits (1933: $4,246,000) go to the Hershey Industrial School, and 76-year-old Mr. Hershey lives alone in two rooms at the country club. Through Depression he has quietly fattened his bars...
...SMALL WORLD-Walter Bodin & Burnet Hershey-Coward-McCann ($3). In the 18th Century it was quite the thing to visit Bedlam, London's lunatic asylum, to have a hearty laugh at its mad inmates. Twentieth-Centuryites are more squeamish, but they still pay good money to circus sideshows to see grown men and women whose under-functioning pituitary glands have made midgets. For those who cannot or will not attend such freak shows, Authors Bodin & Hershey have written a book that answers all conceivable questions about these monstrous mites. Midgets are correctly proportioned miniature copies of adults, usually between...
Though most midgets who earn their own living do it by exhibiting themselves, Authors Bodin & Hershey list midget architects, realtors, brokers, restaurateurs, watchmakers, musicians, playwrights. Smallest midgets in the U. S.: Adele Ber, 9, of Yonkers, N. Y. (1 ft. 6); Lya Graf, 32, Ringling performer and Morgan lap-sitter (1 ft. 9); Clarence Chesterfield Howerton ("Major Mite"), 26, of Oregon (2 ft. 6). Best-known midget of all time: Charles Sherwood Stratton ("Tom Thumb''), who died in 1883, after marrying Midgetess Lavinia Warren. The New York Illustrated News gave his Manhattan wedding (1863) 23 columns; to news...
...oily to rise. . . ." The Salons of America's Poet's Dream by Columba Krebs was a woman with a raven for hair, cherries for lips, shells for ears, a lily for a hand, a swan's neck. A crucifixion scene by one Samuel Hershey included newshawks, a microphone, a vendor of hot dogs and miniature crucifixes, a few indolent policemen. Independent José de Creeft showed a picador made of stove pipes and scrap iron. Independent Lucienne Bloch, daughter of Composer Ernest Bloch (see p. 48). showed a panel of photographs of the destroyed Rivera-Rockefeller murals...
...brewery is its Secretary & Treasurer Sol E. Abrams. Joe Uihlein has fine furniture and Gobelin tapestries, likes to make speeches on Gaul, the History of Cavour or the Rise & Fall of the Roman Empire. At one time he built an elaborate candy plant "Eline's"* to compete with Hershey. It was not a great success, was said to have swallowed $15,000,000-an amount said also to have been more than compensated for by profits in A. 0. Smith Corp. (steel products...