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...last week's convention of the American Newspaper Publishers Association in Manhattan. But no sharper attack on radio was forthcoming than the suggestion by Col. Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, that features whose goodwill has been built up through the Press (Joe Palooka, Walter Winchell, Orphan Annie, Emily Post et al.) should not be allowed to capitalize their popularity before the microphone. Newspapers' attitude toward radio is softening, changing from antagonism to alliance. Much advertising money spent in radio now finds its way to publishers' purses. The Columbia system estimates that...
...interesting and quite full account of Robinson Jeffers in your issue of April 4 you casually refer to his mother as "His father . . . had married an orphan 23 years his junior." It is true that Mrs. Jeffers was an orphan, but she was 25 when she married Dr. Jeffers, and had a happy home of culture and means with a childless cousin of her father, and the former's wife. She was a woman of unusual beauty of form and character, great charm, well educated, with finely matured mind, and a good musician. To his heritage from...
...pleasant character and one not easily startled. Her most definite characteristic is a warm enthusiasm for maternity which makes her approve of 1) an African baby in a bag, 2) a hippopotababy waddling after its mother, 3) a small shaggy ape which seems to be an orphan. When she goes with her father's expedition to find the valley where the long-tusked elephants die, she accepts all hardships calmly and only squeals once, when she topples over a precipice and is barely saved by a ragged rope. The final test of her imperturbability comes when she is kidnapped...
Nest. Poet Jeffers' birthplace was Pittsburgh, in 1887. From North Ireland had come his paternal grandfather. His father, an LL.D. learned in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, had married an orphan 23 years, his junior. John Robinson Jeffers was the first fruit; the second. Hamilton Jeffers, now engaged in astronomical work at Lick Observatory, came seven years later...
...thallium's peculiar properties is that it causes hair to fall out. Foolish women and masquerading criminals use it as a depilatory. For a while some orphan asylums used thallium pastes and pills to bare the heads of children infected with ringworm of the scalp...