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...less dominated by the big chains, and to which more than half of the 882 U.S. stations belong. Three weeks ago in Chicago a convention, attended by 200 station representatives, solemnly voted to make membership in NAB no requisite for membership in the National Independent Broadcasters association. Since then NIB membership has doubled. At Manhattan's Rodeo, Cowgirl Alice Greenough took a WOR mike along on a straightbucking broncho to describe her sensations to the radio audience. Alice's description was brief: "Ooph . . . ooph . . . ooph...
...first standard high-priced fountain pen launched on what had always been a low-priced market. Next Walter Sheaffer streamlined his pens. Then in quick succession he introduced the Sheaffer desk set with universal socket (which seals the tip of the pen and keeps it moist), the Feathertouch nib, the special Sheaffer pencil which "propels, repels and expels the lead," the Sheaffer Vacuum-Fil pen. By 1929 the company's gross sales had climbed to $8,000,000 and its profits, averaging more than $1,000,000, were ahead of those of one of its two rivals, Parker...
...married man too much in love with his busy literary wife, and a theatrical producer. For two acts she fills their pipes, leans against their knees, tells them her sole object in life is to take care of a big baby who wants to be taken care of, nib- bles at food in public, wolfs it in private, conspicuously weeps, sniffles, gasps, coos, flits and flutters. Having kept three men simultaneously in the air. she nearly breaks up the married man's home before she settles on the producer. In this empty and ungrateful part, her first in straight...
...sought to be an astringent to his prosperity-swollen country. He took credit for Coolidge prosperity because it was politically expedient to do so, but he kept repeating that Coolidge economy was the priceless ingredient. He carried this thought to the picayune extreme of giving away only the pen nib, and not the pen holder, after signing important bills. The other, philosophical extreme was reached in his curt closing message to Congress and the country last December...
...Author. Roy Floyd Dibble, a. gentleman of 39, obtained a Ph. D. at Columbia University in 1921 and later instructed there, in English. Soon after its inception, the American Mercury enlisted his caustic nib, as has the Century Magazine. Last year he caused widespread delight with a biography of the late and eminent pugilist, John L. Sullivan (TIME, April...