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A useful person to shrewd publishers is a book-censor. Sure as death & taxes, a guilty volume will be publicized, will sell widely thereafter, openly or 'legged. Such success would be repugnant to Publishers Farrar & Rinehart, who by purchasing Cosmopolitan Book Corp. last month jumped into the first rank...
In the event of a Democratic majority, the choice will be simple. Grizzled John Nance ("Jack") Garner, onetime cowboy, longtime Democratic floor leader, has the undivided support of his party. But if the G. O. P. retains its regularly Republican district in Ohio, long will be the wrangling and bitter...
Best ostrich territory is the Cape of Good Hope. In 1925 there were 1,000,000 birds being grown there; now there are only about 25,000. (This of course does not include the strong-legged, ferocious wild ostrich often found herding with zebras and antelopes.) There are also ostrich...
Disappointed but not resentful, the knowing Wimbledon gallery was only partly recompensed by the phenomenon of a final in the women's singles champion ship between two sprightly German girls, the first all-German final on record. Long legged Fräulein Hilda Krahwinkel, who hits her drives hard and never...
One day last week Charles Augustus Lindbergh telephoned the State Department in Washington and said that Undersecretary Castle might announce that Col. Lindbergh and wife would soon fly to the Orient-"if the press was interested." The press was interested and scampered, hundred-legged, after the Lindberghs. Publicity-wise cities...