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DESPITE all the efforts of Adolf Hitler and Samuel Crowther, some people still seem to believe in the possibility of internationalism. One of these misguided seuls is David Mitrany, an English journalist and publicist, whose red beard and penetrating mind were the envy of Winthrop House and the Government Department for the two years recently spent in our midst. In "The Progress of International Government", his Dodge lectures at Yale, Mr. Mitrany gives an interesting historical and philosophical view of internationalism...
When Transcontinental Air Transport ("Lindbergh Line") was formed in 1928 Gene Vidal got his first real job. He made a point of working in every department, learned the business from bottom to the level of assistant general manager. Also he made two fast friends in the company: Publicist Amelia Earhart and General Superintendent Paul ("Dog") Collins. In 1929 a merger shook him and Paul Collins out. But before that happened they had hatched the best idea of their careers-a short airway over a heavily traveled route with frequent schedules and low fares. They sold the idea to Philadelphia Socialites...
What manner of man is the U. S. preacher? He may be Liberal, Moderate or Fundamentalist, poet, teacher or mystic. He is less the scholar-theologian than his brothers in England and Scotland; more the pastor-executive-publicist. He is entertaining and vivacious, but restrained in comparison with the thunderers of half a century ago. He speaks over the radio. He publishes as many volumes of sermons in a year as were published in a decade prior to 1890. He is about 54 years old. "It is doubtful if there has been another period in American history so opulent...
...well known as Ivy Lee is able Thomas Joseph Ross, Jr., 39. Fourteen years ago he quit the New York Sun, on which he had been a steady-going "wheelhorse" reporter of the Frank Ward O'Malley period, to work for Publicist Lee. Not only did he rise to No. 1 man on the Lee staff, devoting most of his time to Pennsylvania Railroad and Chrysler, but he became a private relations counsel between his temperamental chief and the rest of the staff. When Mr. Lee would abruptly summon his staff to meet him in his uptown suite...
Although no one at Gimbels would credit the idea to any individual, all admen recognized the handiwork of Kenneth Collins, high-priced publicist who quit Macy's last November, was soon hired as assistant to President Bernard Gimbel...