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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This put a bee in the cap of an Annapolis midshipman named Joseph SpielVogel. He left Annapolis and one day, while studying engineering in Newark, N. J., he found himself fingering some crepe paper in a 5? & 10? store. The result was the Vogel-type aligning paper which he put on the market in 1934. It is a finely corrugated paper, ruled so that it can be torn in narrow horizontal strips and cemented to a backing sheet. The typist writes on the corrugated side and, when finished, takes a pair of tweezers, lifts the strips loose, stretches them...
While Universal operated always in the red, International News Service had inched into the black in 1935, doubled its list of clients to over 700 papers, mostly evening. The merger makes I. N. S. a 24-hour-service and gives it such feature writers as Damon Runyon, Bugs Baer and Louella Parsons...
Barry Farris continues as editor of expanded I. N. S.; Universal's Seymour Berkson takes charge of the night wire; and at the top remains smiling Joseph V. Connolly as president of I. N. S. and prosperous King Features Syndicate...
...Reidsville, N. C., the latest sport is rolling-pin throwing contests. Target is a dummy with a bull's-eye drawn on it. Unofficial champion is Mrs. Frank Christian...
...Paterson, N. J., Mr. & Mrs. Charles Cooper left on a vacation. While they were gone, an unidentified woman broke into their house, put on a house dress, called a second-hand dealer, sold him for $25 furniture worth...