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...most of their time getting their names in the papers by either attacking the movies or the stage. This produces an effect upon the public which is far from desirable. All one has to do now to see or read the most execrable pornography is to go to any newsstand and buy one of the cheaper lurid magazines. There are literally hundreds of such magazines being published at the present time, yet no apparent effort is being made to curb the ever-increasing outflow. Some of the magazines have the grace to hide under the name of 'fine arts...
...other magazine which has felt the pinch of hard, times Outlook & Independent last week changed from weekly to monthly for the first time since its establishment in 1869 as The Christian Union with Henry Ward Beecher as editor-in-chief. Fattened but otherwise unchanged, Outlook will bid for bigger newsstand sales...
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...