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...Rocky Mountain News, which in its wild and woolly youth was sometimes printed on wrapping paper, is the second* Scripps-Howard sheet to adopt a small format. Business Manager Howard William Hailey explains that he had an itch to get hold of the national Sunday supplement Parade, which is syndicated by Marshall Field III. The savings the News will make (mostly by dropping its old Sunday magazine and reducing the size of its comic section) will more than pay for Parade...
...shorts) in 1929. The 25-year-old cameraman was more than ready. An incident at Universal studios had revealed his true ambitions. The studio sent him upcountry to take some fast-action cattle shots for a Western. It was apple-blossom time and -to a man with an itch to direct-irresistible. When the studio ran the film, it was charmingly interspersed with tender shots of dropping apple blossoms. They almost...
News competitions are not designed for the man who intends to make the newspaper business his life's career. It is for the Freshman who has an itch to learn more about Harvard and more from Harvard than he can find in a Sever classroom...
Even Philadelphia's terrible-tempered Dr. Albert C. ("Argyrol") Barnes, who owns more Renoirs than the Louvre, has the Pennsylvania Dutch itch. In one of his best vitriol-blue shirts, white-haired Collector Barnes was one of those who went last week to the little town of Norristown, Pa., to inspect an exhibition of antiquated German-American knickknacks. In the barrel-vaulted attic of its knackwurst-colored Town Hall, Norristown held its annual Antiques Show, one of a chain of country-fair dealers' exhibitions that periodically sweep the towns of the Pennsylvania Dutch 'country like an epidemic...
...Louis XIV's Madame de Maintenon lived there-are not enough to make up for its boredom. That it grows a little sugar, much of which goes into rum, and that the beguine began there. That it is very congenial to malaria, typhoid, leprosy, syphilis and the dobie itch...