Word: inks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confessional type of memoirs as Tom Thumb from Jumbo the elephant. Fellows' life has been a three-ring circus, and he presents it in those terms. He ballyhoos himself as "a genie of journalistic paste jars, a fantastic flower nurtured in a pot of printer's ink, a product of the freedom of the press." True to his profession, he says he has done his best to tell the truth, adds: "Occasionally my tongue slipped into my cheek." No one who has ever been to the circus will mind that...
...July N. E. A.'s spectacled, able President Frederick S. Ferguson was quietly preparing to carry on without Ahern the daily and Sunday doings of Hoople & Co., which legally belong not to the cartoonist but to the syndicate. Reported inducements which led Cartoonist Ahern to abandon the pen & ink characters with whom he rose to fame & fortune: 1) In Hollywood where the Aherns live, Mrs. Ahern considers the Hearstian Los Angeles Examiner the leading paper, hence the one in which she prefers to see her husband's work; 2) a raise in salary from...
...century pioneering, especially in the cinema, comes a bit expensive, and the producer, if he wants to stay in business very long, must keep his eye on box office grosses, not on the embittered criticism of a few collegiate purists. He holds his job by the amount of black ink he can put on the company ledger, not by the number of artistic hurrahs he is able to arouse...
...Manhattan subway one morning last week, dived under the Hudson River to Hoboken, N. J. where U. S. Steel maintains its legal residence. Among stockholders awaiting Mr. Taylor's arrival was one William Snelling, a knickerbockered 14-year-old from Allentown, Pa. who said he was in the ink business with his younger brother. Having bought one share of U. S. Steel for $30 in 1932 and watched it climb to last week's price of $71, Stockholder Snelling wanted to find out how Steel ran its business...
Poise a fountain pen above the middle of a map of South America, jiggle the lever until a blob of ink falls and you have Paraguay, an irregular region about 200 miles wide and 300 miles long in the middle of the continent. For about a month now Paraguayans have not been able to get any uncensored mail or foreign newspapers. All they know is what they read in Paraguayan papers whose entire editorial staffs have been chased out and replaced by audacious, cheerful young Army men who idolize the country's great Chaco war-hero and new Dictator...