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Died. Bertha M. Sprinks Goudy, 67, world's ablest woman printer, wife & partner of famed Type Designer Frederic William Goudy; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Marlborough-on-Hudson...
...people crowded up to shake hands. Then Gilda Gray danced for the same real estate company." In the 1924 Democratic convention Bryan was a delegate from Florida (after the Hollywood, Fla., News had suggested that ''that would give Miami two or three million dollars' worth of printer's ink free"). The Great Commoner suggested Dr. A. A. Murphree, president of the University of Florida, as a candidate. Mr. Werner states that Bryan later confessed that "he had never been so humiliated in his life" as at the convention. He suggests, however, that Bryan may have received...
Last week Editor Ansley sent his "Z's" to the printer. True to his word, he had crammed a goodly amount of the world's knowledge into one fat volume of 5,000,000 words. To save space he had done away with pictures and paragraphing, abbreviated mountain to mt., county to co. Staff-written, the encyclopedia had required the efforts of some 200 writers. In an off-hand moment Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler, finding the volume good, named it the Columbia Encyclopedia. The Columbia Press priced it at $17.50, promised delivery some time...
Bohrod, 27, Chicago-born son of a poor grocer and janitor, is demure, hardworking, blond. He worked as scorecard seller at the Chicago Cubs' ball park, advertising art apprentice, broker's clerk, printer's paper-jogger. Without any of the intellectual and artistic pretensions of Schwartz, he has won four Institute prizes...
...President Downs, apologies for a regrettable printer's error...