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Word that typewriters, revolver shots and police sirens would concatenate in Carnegie Hall, last week drew a crowd unaccustomed to entering Manhattan's most formal music house. Theatre folk, songwriters and newspapermen flocked to hear tabloid Paul Whiteman (126 Ib. thinner than he used to be) play Tabloid. It had been written for him by his oldtime orchestrator, squat, baldish Ferde Grofé who now runs the Grofé Realty Co. in Teaneck...
...thousand tons of paper . . . whirling through great power presses . . . using 750 Ib. of ink an hour. More than a thousand printers . . . working night and day. Machines with great mechanical fingers sorting, gathering and binding pages into books. Four hundred artists and camera men making thousands of illustrations. . . . A great battery of 200 typewriters clicking out the true story of value you read on these pages...
Born. To Beatrice Ferguson Snipes, 29, Columbia (S. C.) murderess whose death sentence was commuted last fortnight to life imprisonment; a daughter. Weight: / Ib. Name: Frances Joan Snipes. The judge: "The child, of course, is not sentenced to the penitentiary." The hospital: "What to do with the baby is the penitentiary's problem, not ours...
Butter fats . . . . . . . .26? per Ib...
Born. To Bulgaria's Tsar Boris III, 38; and Queen loanna, 25, daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emmanuele; a first child, daughter, 8 Ib.; in Sofia, Bulgaria. Name: Maria Louise...