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...paid no dividends, has cost President Keep & friends "something less" than $400,000. Revenue has all gone into expansion and promotion; plump, curly Dave Keep hopes eventually to have something that will rival the New Yorker. "If we need more money, we'll put it in," says...
Last week plump Business Manager Bickelhaupt called the Tribune staff together, gave a pep talk, promised a bigger and better newspaper to battle the Star-Journal for supremacy in the Northwest. Possibility: that the all-day Tribune would split into two papers, hold its morning circulation, go after the silk-stocking evening Journal readers...
...Follette packed the University's Board of Regents with his own men and ousted slick Glenn Frank from the presidency. Hardly had Phil La Follette got Clarence Addison Dykstra, Cincinnati's flood city manager, into the job than Wisconsin did a political about-face and elected plump, pink Republican Julius Peter ("The Just") Heil to the Governorship (TIME, Jan. 16). Governor Heil promptly declared war on President Dykstra...
...University of Washington's arboretum is a lush, tree-planted, 260-acre park built by WPA, west of Seattle's exclusive Broadmoor district. It was the scene last week of a really glittering occasion. After speeches, orchestra music, ceremonies broadcast by radio, plump, close-coupled Collector of Customs Saul Haas, Seattle's Democratic patronage dispenser, lifted a pair of scissors, slashed the gauze covering of an ordinary-looking box. Out twinkled 200 fireflies...
...Plump Mrs. Anthony Geraci, goodwife of The Bronx, N. Y., limped to St. Lucy's Roman Catholic Church one evening last week, leaning on a cane. Her dragging left foot was supported in a steel brace. After services in the church, Mrs. Geraci and some 500 other worshippers followed Father Pasquale T. Lombardo to St. Lucy's new, $10,000 outdoor shrine, a replica of the famed grotto at Lourdes. Mrs. Geraci went to the shrine's pool, fed by city water trickling over big rocks below a statue of the Virgin...