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...which has graced so many previous occasions." Last week came a climax in Miss Dev- ereux's professional life. The daughter of the Enquirer's Editor William F. Wiley -her boss's daughter-was being married. Now her page, already a marvel of descriptive prose, must outdo itself. Marion Devereux rose splendidly to the occasion. For two-and-one-half columns she rhapsodized. Excerpts: "Last night the marriage of Miss Margaret Wiley and Mr. Campbell Dinsmore was an event of wide importance both for its social interest and owing to the fact that the fathers of both...
Meanwhile, during the past month, the Committee of Nineteen's sub-Committee of Nine had been playing a diddling game of questions & answers with Japanese Delegate Yosuke Matsuoka, each side trying to outdo the other in feats of diplomatic finesse. This parlor pastime abruptly ceased as the sub-Committee buckled down to drafting the suggestions of M. Massigli and Captain Eden into form for action by the Assembly...
...Yale will be represented by a powerful contingent in the field events. Crowley and Malin have been approaching 48 feet in prctice in the shot put event: Healey and Kuehn have tossed but 44 feet in recent work-outs. The big Lowell redhead, however, looked good Thursday and may outdo the veteran Kuehn. Yale has little 35-pound weight material, but with Lee doing 14 feet in the pole vault and with such stars as Pierce and Williamson around to take more point, the Eli, in sprite of Sutermeister, are scheduled to take the event in grand style. Harvard will...
Last week the Indians were ready to outdo previous frenzies. Many brought ancient costumes, decked with beads, feathers, shells for their traditional dances. Others set up stands and sold native products to visitors. Through the crowds circulated vendors of the real, authentic Basilica cigarets, proceeds from the sale of which were, to be given by El Aquila Cigaret Co. to the alteration fund of the Basilica. El Aquila had first christened the cigarets Cuarto Centenario, but an impious competitor had quickly produced a brand known as Centenario, necessitating change of name and an advertisement denouncing the upstarts as crass mercenaries...
...bought out potent Cosmopolitan Book Corp., publishers since 1914 and wholly owned by William Randolph Hearst. Long used by Mr. Hearst to make by-profits out of serials published in his magazines, Cosmopolitan was grandly energized last year and the book trade heard that Mr. Hearst was out to outdo the greatest book houses. The Cosmopolitan stable of authors was expensively expanded until it included such prize exhibits as Louis Bromfield (reputedly under contract for five books at $60,000 a book), Erich Maria Remarque, Anita Loos, Fannie Hurst, Ruth Suckow, Vicki Baum, Colette, Rex Beach, besides such old Hearst...