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Advertising Results. In Louisville, Robert Perry asked $1,525 damages from the Moskins Credit Clothing store: $25 for meals eaten out, plus $1,500 for temporary loss of his wife, who left him after misinterpreting a postcard sales-stunt which read, "Please call WA 1492 and ask for Carolyn...
Gromaire's talent is not on a grand scale; it consists in simplifying the obvious. One of the best paintings on view was nothing more than a head-on view of a Dutch windmill and a couple of fishing boats. Gromaire had reduced his picture-postcard subject to a boldly geometrical pattern of intense colors that fixed, without frippery, the spirit of the scene...
Intimations of Mortality. In Santa Fe, N. Mex., Louis Giannini admitted sending Mrs. Pete Mateucci a postcard reading "You are going to be a widow before long, so make plans accordingly," but insisted that he had "merely intended it as a word of advice to take out more life insurance...
...barren spot of U.S. land called Little Diomede and the Russian island called Big Diomede lies 2% miles of Bering Strait and the International Dateline. From big, weather-worn Father Bernard R. Hubbard, the 61-year-old "Glacier Priest" whose Alaskan explorations are known around the world, came a postcard last week to Alaska Authoress Barrett (Spawn of the North) Willoughby. From his mission on Little Diomede (pop. 130), Father Hubbard wrote...
...World-Telegram & Sun had gone on for seven weeks. Some members of the New York Newspaper Guild last week were fed up. Twenty-two strikers formed the "Guild Committee for Common Sense," dispatched a letter to some 450 fellow strikers, urging an end to the walkout, and started a postcard poll...