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Bovard's successor is a 6 ft. 4 in., 235-Ib. Missourian named Benjamin Harrison Reese. Editor Reese has just one aim in life: to see that the Post-Dispatch lives up to its reputation his predecessors gave it. In that ambition he is backed by two fighting Irish henchmen: ruddy Editorial Editor Ralph Coghlan, sandy-haired Cartoonist Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick...
Last week in the hands of the No. 1 U. S. paintmaker's 6,300 dealers were the results-25,000 copies of a big (over 2 sq. ft.) heavy (7 Ib. 6 oz.), costly ($10) style guide. Designed to replace the old color chart, its 236 color plates showed houses, living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, etc. in coats of many colors. Each oversize plate was an extraordinarily clear and detailed color photograph of an actual paint job. With housewives able to see how colors look on wall and woodwork, Sherwin-Williams hoped to touch off a housepainting renaissance...
...Glenn Martin reported that the U. S. has developed the basic design for a 250,000 Ib. plane that would fly 380 m.p.h., carry 64,000 Ibs. of bombs 3,000 miles with a crew...
Scores of German travel agencies in the U. S., advertising special combinations of gift Pakete in German-language newspapers, handled this traffic. Prices were high. A Pakete containing 2 Ibs. of butter, 2 Ibs. of cheese, 2 Ibs. of condensed milk, 1 Ib. of lard, ½Ib. of coffee, ½Ib. of cocoa cost $5.95. The cost of sending 8 Ibs. of butter: $7.50. (Pounds were German pounds, slightly larger than U. S.) Cost did not discourage senders. Fortra Corp. of Manhattan declared it had placed 30,000 food packages in Germany in less than three months, was doing...
Today, rotund, greying, 49-year-old Lauritz Melchior, the best Heldentenor of them all, is content to rest on his laurels. The father of two grown children (by his first wife, Danish-born Inger Nathansen, who died in 1927), he occasionally frets about 22-year-old Son Ib's cinema ambitions in Hollywood, keeps 19-year-old Daughter Birte hard at her business-school courses in Copenhagen. Though he diets in summer to keep his weight down to 225 Ibs., he takes his winter opera performances in his stride, often eats heavy meals before he goes to the opera...