Word: newsstand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unless many newsmen all made the same mistake, Newsstand-Buyer Mary Williams' memory errs again. On her third marriage last month, to George Anthony Reginald Williams. 33, the aviatrix was widely quoted: "My first husband. Elliott-Lynn, was 76 when we were married, and my second. Sir James Heath, was 56." Sir James, whom she married in 1927 will not be 80 until...
...advent of Ballyhoo had nothing to do with Life's change, according to the publishers. Newsstand sales did suffer in the week of Ballyhoo's first issue (TIME, July 6) but they have been slightly above normal since then, possibly because Ballyhoo stimulated the demand for funny magazines...
...name, denied that the President was biologically able to achieve paternity, depicted Miss Britton as an unscrupulous impostor with a bad character. Round-faced, smiling Charles Augustus Klunk, 53, old Harding friend, proprietor of the Marion (Ohio) Hotel, put Author de Barthe's book on sale at the newsstand of his musty old American-plan hostelry. Miss Britton filed a $50,000 suit against him on the ground that his distribution of The Answer libeled...
...Woolworth stores, proved such a smashing success that Kresge & Kress stores followed suit by adopting two magazines published by George T. Delacorte Jr. (Modern Screen, Modern Romances - TIME, Nov. 3). The success was repeated.* Smart publishers then accepted as fact the theory that women who never patronize a newsstand will buy io? love fiction, Hollywood chitchat, etc. where they buy their merchandise...
...Combined circulation of Tower group: 1,330,000; of Modern group (exclusive of newsstand sales): 657,000. †Grand-Silver Stores Inc., McCrory Stores Corp., McClellan Stores, G. C. Murphy Co., Neisner Bros. Inc., J. J. Newberry...