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Blue crew. Stroke, William J. Hammond, Jr.; 7, Robert E. Shalen; 6, Cedric E. Francis; 5, James B. Hallett; 4, David A. Tufts; 3, Donald W. Fiske; 2, Francis P. Allen, Jr.; bow, Arthur J. Hacker; cox, Octavus R. Cohen...
...spend freely to get and hold good authors. He set about to speed up the magazine, insisting on more and snorter stories in each issue, buying by the story, not by the word. He originated the "short short-story," complete on one page, first of which was written by Octavus Roy Cohen. Four-color illustrations were used in Collier's for the first time by any weekly. Collier's began to recapture some of its old pugnaciousness with special articles which, while they lost some old readers, gained more new ones. One such enterprise was a long series of reports...
...Workers Edward A. Filene (Boston), Adolph Lewisohn (New York); Educators Cyrus Adler, Abraham Flexner, Felix Frankfurter; Education Benefactors George S. Cohen*, Simon Guggenheim, Louis B. Kuppenheimer, Charles A. Wimpfheimer; Internationalists Leo S. Rowe, Simon Straus, Felix M. Warburg, Journalists Walter Lippmann, Adolph S. Ochs, Louis Wiley; Authors Lewis Browne, Octavus Roy Cohen, Edna Ferber, Arthur Guiterman, George S. Hellman, Fannie Hurst, Manuel Komroff, Maria Moravsky, Emanie N Sachs, Thyra Samter Winslow; Cinema Men William...
...Died. Octavus Cohen, 68, famed editor, lawyer, father of Author Octavus Roy Cohen; in Charleston...
...that my children (as the only honest man in the town said) is something. Nor was he completely without a certain sense of the fitness of things. No doubt he owes much to the fact that his earliest reading had been in the classics, Zane Gray, Jane Austin and Octavus Roy Cohen. But the significant fact remains, gentlemen, that no romantic writer of his ilk could have existed west of Worcester without feeling the subtle and pervading influence of the fin desiecle spirit on his whiskey sours. Changing his verse every ten years, and here is a significant fact, that...