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...phone rings constantly, and Righter?who has never bothered with people's names???spends much of his time in a soft-voiced swivet of "Oh, Moonchild,-I'm happy to tell you that this is a very good day for you." "Hello, Taurus. Yes, sign the contracts day after tomorrow, not before." "Well, Capricorn, I've been expecting your call. I'm pleased that it worked out well, but I'm not surprised. Remember me to Aries." At night he keeps a file of his principal clients' charts by his bed for ready consultation at 2:30 a.m. when...
Franklin Roosevelt tossed his head, laughed heartily, declared that he had them all intrigued about what was coming. Then he recited more names???Cabinet and sub-Cabinet officials?and again grinned. Was it not a queer combination of notables? The puzzled correspondents agreed that it was. That group, the President explained, was going to meet that very afternoon to devise ways; means of taking profits...
Names make news and, in some instances, names???even when not printed? make whole publications, notably the papers of the "show business," of Manhattan's Broadway. This intensely personal form of journalism was notably demonstrated last week by Zit's Theatrical Newspaper (commonly known as Zit's Weekly...
Uneventfully she met great news-names???Burbank, Burroughs, Debs, Tagore, Roosevelt, Montessori. More eventful were the following rapprochements...
...front yard. Imagine being a bricklayer, an electrician, a clerk in a music store, an instructor of long distance telephone operators or a tire repair man, and being unexpectedly confronted, in person, with two men whose names have been appearing in newspaper headlines for four years. Connected with their names???Harry Ford Sinclair and Albert Bacon Fall?was something about oil, oil in Wyoming, oil belonging to the U. S. Navy. Millions of dollars had been involved. Mr. Sinclair and Mr. Fall were accused of doing something wrong about a lease, some liberty bonds, various oil companies, subpoenas, jurisdictions, previous...