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...practically impossible for anyone who has hit the jackpot of a slot machine to keep from trying it again. The Manhattan publishing firm of Farrar & Rinehart hit the public jackpot hard with the first of the 1,000-page historickal-romantickal novels, Anthony Adverse. After five years of wistful abstinence (particularly trying because meanwhile Macmillan hit an even bigger pot with Gone...
...BIGGER THEY COME-A. A. Fair-Morrow ($2). Introducing fat, profane Detective Bertha Cool and her runty assistant Donald Lam. Slot-machine racketeers in a Southwestern locale, with a jackpot ending that turns on a neat legal trick...
...Sample. In 1927 E. (for Edward) Frank Hummert, longtime newspaperman, Liberty Loan slogan writer ("Bonds or Bondage") and pressagent, joined the firm as copy writing chief. In 1930 pretty, brown-haired Anne Ashenhurst, newspaperwoman, was hired to help him. With his young new aide, Frank Hummert discovered that the jackpot in the radio business was the serial "script show...
While Northwestern waited for its potential jackpot, Freshman Bill de Correvont who scored 211 points for Chicago's Austin High School last year, to join the varsity, the Midwest lacked headline heroes. Minnesota appeared to be the team to beat. Perilously close behind in popular appraisal, however, were Wisconsin, Ohio State, Illinois, Northwestern and even Michigan...
...sweet a game as smart Mr. Davis would have it, Sugar is international. What he may have done for Franklin Roosevelt toward saving Democracy remained in the jackpot, but last week Special Ambassador Davis dealt the cards in the game of Sugar without anyone leaving the table, showed that even in 1937 22 nations could reach an economic agreement: a production-control scheme...