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Mutual type trusts did a little less well than general investment companies, Tri-Continental's average for 22 mutuals being 30.9%. A list of 15 specialized trusts with portfolios concentrated in one industry varied widely in performance, showed a gain on the average of only...
...drugstore business. In 1935 one family breakfast after another was spoiled for Drugman Walgreen because his niece, Lucille Norton, 18, prattled about what she was studying as a freshman at the University of Chicago (TIME, April 22, 1935). Uncle Charles found out that Niece Lucille's reading list in a social science course included books about Soviet Russia in addition to such standbys as Herbert Hoover's American Individualism and Walter Lippmann's A Preface to Morals. Upshot was he decided to withdraw her from school, charged she had been "insidiously exposed" to Communist "influences." A great...
Some 200 advertising men and women were present for the gold medal ceremony and for the long list of other advertising honors awarded this year by the trade-paper Advertising & Selling in continuance of the Harvard Awards founded in 1924 by the late Edward Bok. To Katharine Fisher, director of the Good Housekeeping Institute, and to Arthur Charles Nielsen, Chicago market researcher, went silver medals. Among agencies, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn won two firsts, one honorable mention, and B. B. D. & O.'s president, Roy S. Durstine, received first radio medal. Young & Rubicam scored one first, five honorable mentions...
...went on into Bon Ami, Technicolor, Boorum & Pease Co. But advertising remained his first love. In 1930, having then but his one office in Manhattan, he merged his agency with H. K. McCann Co., giving the new firm seven U. S. and three European offices, adding to the impressive list of Erickson accounts such majors as the Standard Oil group, California Packing, Zonite, Beech...
...been vouchsafed him. On the other hand he had written some books that he knew were good: "My Daemon was with me in the Jungle Books, Kim, and both Puck books, and good care I took to walk delicately, lest he should withdraw." Friends will add to that list; critics may subtract. In Something of Myself, Kipling's Daemon was not with him; he had long vanished over the horizon. But Kipling still followed, marching as to war, helmeted with the crescent of Islam, armored in Congregationalist thunder, proudly knapsacked with the White Man's burden...