Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, June 29, word-pictures a ''plump Willie Sue Blagden, Memphis socialite and social worker." To any discerning person the accompanying photographic version by Pictures Inc. is damaging to your efforts...
...late great Guy de Maupassant boasted that he could weave a short story around any subject, proved it when he was challenged to write one on a piece of string. Franklin Roosevelt could boast with equal assurance of his ability to turn any thing, event, theme or person to his own polemical uses, whether it be a national park, Thomas Jefferson, a dam, Andrew Jackson, the Louisiana Purchase or the taking of Fort Vincennes. Last week it was a bridge. Up to New York City went the President to help dedicate the $60,300,000 Triborough Bridge, biggest PWA project...
...Government, having ascertained that news mentions of King Edward and Mrs. Simpson have been snipped out of periodicals before they could be sold on newsstands in Great Britain, recently put a firm query to the Foreign Office: Could this form of British censorship be enlarged to include the sacred person of the Emperor of Japan...
...under Science and for the public's sake this impression should be corrected. This type of levitation trick was sold by Martinko & Co., 635 Sixth Ave., New York City, 35 years ago and was discarded by magicians because of its crudeness and as explained by TIME any person not totally blind could easily see through the trick. For a "consideration" I will gladly duplicate the trick in my own parlor using a broom instead of a stick and without flowing robes, wild eyes etc. and before any committee TIME wishes to choose. WILLIAM H. MOSELEY...
Having invented a character named Bernard B. Brindlebug to use in a comedy. Cinemactor Groucho Marx was appalled when a real person named Bernard B. Brindlebug turned up in Hollywood, threatened suit...