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...Bumper's Bumper. Chicago's Hush Bumpers, Inc. is ready to put on sale pneumatic plastic auto-bumper guards which can be attached next to standard bumper guards or used to replace them entirely. The Shmoo-shaped hush bumpers come in a variety of car colors. In tests, they absorbed the shock of a car collision at 12 m.p.h. Price...
Dime novels eventually brought Buntline an income of $20.000 a year, but much of it was squandered on sprees or paid out as hush money to one of his earlier wives. By 1880, he had settled down (with wife No. 6) on his Stamford estate, where he was known as Colonel E.Z.C. Judson, former "Chief of Scouts in the Rebellion of 1861-5," and a respectable literary gentleman. "I might have paved for myself a far different career in letters," the colonel liked to say, 'but my early lot was cast among rough men on the border . . ." He died...
Actress Bennett did her best to hush the scandal. "Knowing Hollywood as I do," she declared with conscientious concern, "knowing how good, wholesome and sincere the majority of motion picture people are, I deeply regret that this incident will add to the erroneous opinion of Hollywood shared by so many." There was no romance, she said. Her ride with Agent Lang was a business conference and they had simply used the car to escape the jangling telephones in his office. The sorry affair was simply the result of Wan-ger's business troubles: "I hope that Walter will...
...writes smoothly and lovingly. With a hush in his voice he describes The Hou". "But when evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn. The heart wakens from coma and dyspnea ends. Its strengthening pulse is to cross over into campground, to believe that the world has not been altogether lost or, if lost, then not altogether in vain...
...meeting comes as a climax to two months of hush-hush conferences that have often left members of the committee itself is the dark as to what was happening. Harry Levin '33, professor of English who represents the faculty on the panel along with Archibald Macleish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, admitted last night that he had no idea what proposals Brown or other consultants might make...