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Last week Publisher Delacorte and Editor Anthony announced Ballyhoo, a magazine which will not solicit advertising. It will appear on newsstands July 1 on a tentative fortnightly schedule. Editor Anthony, with free rein to be funny as he can, promised to plow the allegedly virgin field of advertising as a source of humor. (His announcement: "Read a FRESH magazine! All our editors are CELLOPHANE WRAPPED...
Last week the house of Curtis began to do something which other publishers had been hoping and predicting for months that Curtis would do -plow in some of the profits of former years to bring greenness back to the drab winter fields of 1930-31. With the approval of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis and Editor George Horace Lorimer, Mr. Healy accepted the services of President Arthur H. Kudner of Erwin, Wasey & Co., the man and agency who won a 1930 Bok Award for their post-crash slogan: "All right, Mister, now that the headache's over...
...March Vintila did not resign. The multitude of peasants trudged wearily home to plant and plow. But what they had done gave Dr. Maniu the political potency to upset the Bratianu Cabinet in November, seize the Prime Ministry for himself (TIME, Nov. 12 & 19, 1928). Abruptly last week he resigned, would say only, "My reason is the state of my health. I shall devote myself to travel and recreation...
Because it is easier to fire a field of winter grass in the spring than it is to plow the stubble under, and because "burning off" brings sweet young grass for cows to eat, many a U. S. husbandman is responsible for brush blazes that sometimes sweep into forest fires. Spring burnings last week sent greedy flames licking through richly wooded areas in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, eating up many a sawmill and farmhouse in their way, leaving charred dead acres in their wake. Virginia's Natural Bridge National Park lost 9,000 acres of timber; the Shenandoah National...
Chapin Jones, Virginia State Forester, asked Governor John Garland Pollard to urge his people to extraordinary care in setting blazes. In Georgia, where officials have been trying to educate people to adopt the plow-under method of spring clean-up as a means of soil enrichment, Governor Lamartine Griffin Hardman pressed his campaign for fire prevention among all planters...