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TWENTY-TWO UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING AND ROBERT BROWNING - United Feature Syndicate ($10). Hand-printed edition of the hitherto unpublished letters which were sold at auction in Manhattan last April for $40,000, were afterwards reprinted in the Woman's Home Companion...
...when New York fans presented him with an automobile as a token of esteem. That an automobile, admiration from players and spectators, a blue serge suit and $9,000 a year are still for Dolly Stark inadequate compensations for being an umpire became apparent last week. Appropriating a privilege hitherto reserved for baseball players who consider themselves underpaid, he refused to sign a 1936 contract, announced that he was "holding out" for more money. Said he : "The highest praise [umpires] receive is silence. When a man does good work under these circumstances - and I consider umpiring an art - I think...
This week the count of the nation's tabloid daily newspapers reached 25 when Publisher E. (for Elias) Manchester Boddy changed the name of his Los Angeles Post-Record to Evening News, converted it into a companion for his morning tabloid Illustrated Daily News. Hitherto outstanding event in the Post-Record's, erratic history was an astonishing editorial switch which it made in 1932. Founded by a Labor group in 1895, the Record was bought by the late great Edward Wyllis ("Old Man") Scripps, taken over by his estranged son James, became one of the chain which James...
...Anatole de la Marti. After plowing through a column or two. most readers were too dazed to proceed. But the gist of M. de la Marti's plan was to establish a "World Record Service . . . for carrying out competitions in all fields of economic activity, with new and hitherto unknown stimulus, and with large cash prizes. . . . The journal or official organ will be the central supporting beam for the success of the competitions and announcements, and the financial part of the enterprise. Its circulation will be enormous. ... To facilitate the work of the World Record Service a HOUSE...
...Hitherto unbeaten, the yearling swimmers bowed last Saturday to Exeter with a score...