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...years ago the firm Blackett & Sample was organized by Chicago Admen Hill Blackett and John Glen Sample. In 1927 E. (for Edward) Frank Hummert, longtime newspaperman, Liberty Loan slogan writer ("Bonds or Bondage") and pressagent, joined the firm as copy writing chief. In 1930 pretty, brown-haired Anne Ashenhurst, newspaperwoman, was hired to help him. With his young new aide, Frank Hummert discovered that the jackpot in the radio business was the serial "script show...
...Paris Prison La Petite Roquette last week Dictator Mussolini's self-styled onetime intimate, Mile Madeleine de Fontanges, shooter fortnight ago of a French diplomat whom she accused of breaking up her affair (TIME, March 29), wrote day & night with the energy of a newspaperwoman scorned. The police had impounded her diary and she was writing it anew, from memory-about 30,000 words...
Last week readers had an opportunity to learn about Atlanta's history in an imposing first novel chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club for July. The work of a young Atlanta newspaperwoman, Gone With the Wind is remarkable in other ways than its extreme length. In its 1,037 pages Margaret Mitchell has pictured pre-Civil War plantation life, the disintegration of Southern society during the War, the siege of Atlanta, the chaos of Reconstruction, the emergence of industrialism with its high-pressure rivalries, employment problems, money standards, as the plantation system gave way; the persistence...
When Mrs. Hoe took the family troubles to a sympathetic newspaperwoman, whose job it was to put the bee of budget-keeping in her readers' bonnets, she got good advice free, paid by not taking it. Then unsympathetic reality began to crack down. Dallas flunked out of high school, wasted a lot of time trying to win a $10,000-prize competition, settled unwillingly to a job as chauffeur to his best girl's father. Sythia's grandmother sacrificed part of her funeral money to divert the "career" into a more appropriate job in a beauty parlor...
...Author did not have to look further than her desk for her material. A conscientious, self-effacing newspaperwoman, she is Household Editor of the Newark Sunday Call, has been in the same job ever since she finished school, 20 years ago. Besides the two novels mentioned, she has written many a pseudonymous children's story, another novel, Head of the Family. If I Have Four Apples is the January choice (with The Next Hundred Years) of the Book-of-the-Month Club...