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...seriously the cinema is attacking the strongholds of education is shown in the faltering announcement that Harvard University is to be the keystone of the Nationwide tour being made by John McCormick, general manager of West Coast production of First National Pictures, in an effort to bring college men of promise into motion picture work...
...McCormick, who is in charge of the tests has so aptly put it. "These tests are not a matter of vanity, but of some business logic. We offer an exceptional opportunity in exchange for personality, ambition, and interest. We expect 200 men to report for preliminary examinations at Harvard...
Stanford White, famed architect slain by insane Harry K. Thaw, planned it. The fortune that paid for it was derived from the Chicago Tribune. It was built in 1904, the home of Editor Robert W. Patterson, who, like many of the Chicago Tribune family (Medill-McCormick-Patterson), included Washington as well as Chicago in his affairs. Editor Patterson died, his wife returned to Chicago, his daughter (Mrs. Elmer Schlesinger) took the house. Address: No. 15 Dupont Circle...
...pawky lecher and his fleshy girl-wife. There are thousands of Edward West Brownings in the U. S., but never before had one sprawled forth whose pathological condition included lust for publicity. The pornoGraphic, closely followed by its loose-lipped fellow-tabloids, the Hearst Mirror and the Patterson-McCormick Daily News, and abetted by an accommodating judge, proceeded with an exploitation to which previous obscenities-the Arbuckle, Rhinelander, Hall-Mills and Chaplin cases-seemed a prelude almost refined. Pressing its usual policy, the Graphic had a paunchy man in pajamas and a plump girl in a film of silk underwear...
News. The Patterson-McCormick Daily News delivered such headlines as "PEACHES'S BRIDAL SECRETS," "HUNT PEACHES'S 50 SHEIKS," "OUTLAW GOLDDIGGERS! PLEADS BROWNING," "BLED OF CASH-DADDY." (The News, to be "different," sided with Mr. Browning.) All the tabloids, of course, published judiciously selected slices of the testimony...