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...oldtime Palmer House. Onetime office-devil of his father's country newspaper at Lapeer, Mich., Adman Kudner has been a concert singer, police reporter, magazine contributor, versifier, political writer. Framed over his desk is his favorite definition of advertising, a quotation from Fred Patzel, 1926 World Champion Hog Caller: "You've got to have appeal as well as power in your voice. You've got to con-.vince the hogs you have something for them...
Lisbon papers rumored last week that what had roused President Carmona (himself addicted to fountain pens) to have the inkstand made was the wedding of Princess Marie Jose of Belgium (TIME, Jan. 13). Finding it necessary to order a candelabra for H. R. H., he went the whole hog, ordered the Peace Palace's inkstand too, plus a tray for it to stand on, plus two goose quill pens...
...Students assert that with this large salary the young lieutenants will be able to hog the whole of Calea Victoriei?the great after-tea promenade?and run away with all the pretty girls. . . . Students interviewed gave scores of cases of their lycée comrades who failed in the early periods of their work and who are today officers looking forward to the big increase while these students aren't half way through the university...
...friend Josephine Hutchinson to carry when she plays Alice in Wonderland. A complete search of Manhattan's pet shops failed to reveal a suitable animal so Miss Le Gallienne wrote to the press about it. What she wanted was a pig that would not grow into a hog during the course of the play's run. She preferred a quiet animal that could make its public appearance without wiggling, kicking, snorting. An occasional squeal would be permitted on stage, however, for the only way Alice knows that the Duchess' baby, which she has been holding, is nothing...
Walter Ferguson, Sterling supporter, declared his brother Jim was "no more interested in the common people than a hog in rock pile." On primary day some 900,000 Texas Democrats, deeply stirred by the campaign, went to the polls, cast a record vote which nominated Candidate Sterling by a majority of almost 100,000. The entire big-city press of Texas agreed with him when he claimed his victory was a "triumph of good government" and the end of "Fergusonism." Nominee Sterling, sure of election, will have perfunctory opposition in November from Dr. Charles Butte, Republican gubernatorial nominee. Born poor...