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What was modestly termed "your germ of laughter, your dash of tabasco and wit that will enable you to swallow your crumbs along with your oysters," was made available to an enthralled body of newsstand patrons yesterday afternoon...
...Kansas City, Mo., Sergeant William Simpson and Detective C. R. Wagner, leafing through a detective magazine at a newsstand, looked up from the picture of a wanted man into his face, arrested...
There is just so much room on a newsstand. The more space a magazine gets on that stand, the more copies it is likely to sell. Preferred position is along the front of the stand, and lately the heavy-selling picture magazines have been crowding into those limited positions, upsetting some established applecarts and setting the nerves of most magazine circulation people on edge. When conditions are toughest, not the least uncommon trade practice of many magazines is to send representatives from stand to stand, shoving competitors' products aside, bringing their own magazines to the forefront. These tactics...
Last week, however, thrice-married W. H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett of True Confessions and Bernarr Macfadden of True Story were doing plenty about it in one of the nastiest newsstand fights since the two were at each other's throats...
...from which to jump. . . . Photo-Facts supplies a good firm groundwork of useful information from which to 'jump' accurately." Photo-Facts considered useful such stories as "White Man Westward" (Lewis & Clark), "Termite Menace," "Poe's Great Balloon Hoax," "Football From Pagan Rites." Added fillip was its "Newsstand University" section in which Dale Carnegie again bobbed up, this time with "Putting Yourself Across": typical Carnegie tip: "Do not fuss with your necktie or clothes-be always neatly dressed and let your hands hang at your sides." Professor Harold F. Clark of Columbia and Dr. Carl Norcross concluded Photo...