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Into the Manhattan offices of Review of Reviews last month stepped a short, dark-haired youngish man who introduced himself to Associate Editor David Page as Pledge Brown, a onetime newshawk on the Ketchikan (Alaska) Chronicle. Producing a letter from Editor Henry Goddard Leach of the Forum thanking him for an article on the New Deal's Matanuska Valley colony in Alaska (TIME, July 1, 1935 et ante), Pledge Brown asked if he might not do a similar piece from a new angle for Review of Reviews. Editor Page asked when he could finish it. Pledge Brown answered that...
Editor Page was more amused than angry. The Forum, however, having paid $75 for the piece, which it had not yet printed, was boiling. When investigation showed that the yarn was highly inaccurate, had appeared in print week before in the Sunday Worker, Editor Leach bleated to the National Publishers Association. That organization's warning broadside uncovered the news that Brown had worked his swindle on two other magazines: Scribner's, for $125; North American Review, for $75. Neither had yet published the story. In each case Brown got his money quickly by saying he had to catch...
...Good Neighbor League, newly organized to promote the New Deal's "Good Neighbor" policy. Among the directors were Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Methodist Bishop Edgar Blake, Dr. George Foster Peabody, Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger, Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini, Social Worker Lillian D. Wald, Dr. Henry Goddard Leach. Object of the League was to unite the forces of Feminism, Piety and Pacifism behind Franklin Roosevelt for reelection...
Malcolm H. Holmes '28, conductor of the Pierian, and James Ulmer, who leads the Colby Orchestra, will alternate with the baton during the evening. A feature of the program will be a violin solo by Miss Fiorence Leach of Colby...
...Into Death Valley from Red Mountain, Calif. chugged the automobile of Prospector John Backert, bound with his family of three for the Backert claim at Leach Springs, 60 miles away. Suddenly, one of the desert's rare cloudbursts swept down upon them, made a river of the road, forced the car to turn up a hillside, where it broke an axle. Well aware of their danger, Prospector Backert and Daughter Ernestine, 22, left Mrs. Backert, 51, and Daughter Agnes, 12, in the car, started to hike the 40 miles back to town, got there 48 hours later. Organizing...