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Accepting, Peck eats a hearty meal in a restaurant and then beckons the proprietor. "I'm awfully sorry," he murmurs casually, "but I don't have anything smaller." It works. It works again with an expensive tailor and again at a fashionable club. Reporters rush to interview the "vest-pocket millionaire." Heiresses of ancient lineage come to squeal like pigs in clover and an old friend shows up with a "sure thing"-a gold mine guaranteed to make millions later for thousands now. It all moves along amusingly-until the hero discovers that he has lost his million...
...major industry," said Adman Bruce Barton 19 years ago, "has the moral right to allow" itself to be unexplained, misunderstood or publicly distrusted, for by its unpopularity it poisons the pond in which we all must fish." As U.S. industry has outgrown the proprietor-owned and operated companies of old, and as organized labor has gained in strength, more and more corporations have recognized the need for being understood by their employees, stockholders and the public at large. Yet the sad fact is that industry has lost ground in its public-relations campaign...
...Playtorium the raiding party not only found such gambling equipment as crap tables and bingo games; they also encountered Newport's Police Chief George Gugel, and three detectives who had just dropped in "for a soft drink." Photographer Bailey snapped pictures, including one of Chief Gugel with Playtorium Proprietor Schmidt. But Bailey's picture-taking came to an abrupt...
...Washington. Suddenly, as the rabbi bowed his head in prayer, a raucous blast of hillbilly music disrupted the burial ceremony. As the casket was lowered into the earth, it was accompanied by another chorus of mooing mountain music. Afterward, when 20 shocked and weeping mourners protested, Robert F. Marlowe, proprietor of National Memorial Park, was sorry but not surprised. The hillbilly music was just another episode in a running battle between Frank Curtin, a Department of Defense mechanic, and the owners of the cemetery...
Hall, who will receive the title of Managing Editor of the Bulletin, has been the proprietor of his own book store in Newton Centre since 1926 and has served as Circulation Manager for the magazine since 1942. He is a member of the Harvard Fund Council and acts as Class Agent for the Harvard Fund...