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...Pratt Institute before he went into business. He got his first job with Montgomery Ward in 1921, became general merchandise manager in six years. When he was in charge of Ward's retail stores his ambitions for his end of the business were so great as to jar the habitual harmony between Ward's mail order and retail business. Since he moved from Wilmette, Ill. to Montclair, N. J. he has had a lot of fun fishing as a member of the Atlanta Tuna Club at Block Island...
Captured, placed in a glass jar and named Mickey, the singing mouse became the wonder & delight of school and neighborhood. Even newshawks admitted after an audition that it actually sang. When Assistant Director Robert Bean of the Chicago Zoological Park called, it failed to perform. Nonetheless Director Bean, who had heard of singing mice before, offered $150 for it. Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood, zoology curator of the Field Museum of Natural History, also said he had heard of singing mice, though he had never seen one. Declared University of Chicago's Dr. Maud Slye, famed cancer experimenter: "I have...
...Sweringen empire were the two septuagenarian Midwest industrialists who backed the brothers last year when they bought back control of their vast rail and real-estate properties at public auction in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 7, 1935). These backers were George Alexander Ball, 74, Muncie (Ind.) fruit-jar tycoon and George Ashley Tomlinson, 70, Great Lakes ship operator. The two George A.'s together put up $3,121,000 to buy the key collateral pledged by the Van Sweringens for defaulted loans from a J. P. Morgan & Co. banking group, setting up a concern called Midamerica Corp...
...demonstrate the efficacy of Sears Roebuck's best chicken feed, Sears-Roebuck's Lancaster, Pa. Manager Mark Wayne Ansbach last spring popped a Plymouth Rock pullet named Priscilla into a big glass jar, placed the jar in his store window. Priscilla thrived on her mail-order diet, soon grew so large that she could not be removed from the jar. The S. P. C. A. arrested Mr. Ansbach, got him fined $10. He appealed...
...baskets of peaches crowding her out of her house right into Park Avenue. To the rescue came her cook. The surplus was removed to the kitchen, and after some days of intricate processing reappeared as peach jelly. The hallmark of distinction appeared in labels pasted on each jar: "Peach Jelly from the Ferber Orchard...