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...Detroiters in 1907 was Mel Soper's. Two of Mel's good customers were Walter Owen Briggs and John Kelsey, coming figures in the coming automobile industry. When Walter Briggs was unable to get World Series pasteboards because the ball club and not Mel was the chief purveyor of tickets, Mel went to see his friend Frank Navin, part owner of the Tigers. Said Mel with dignity: "Frank, you've got to get me two tickets. . . . They're for Walter Briggs." Mr. Navin snapped: "And who the hell is Walter Briggs?" Mel grew eloquent about Briggs...
This began the strangest director-star relationship in the history of U. S. cinema. In a few months was brought about the transformation of Mrs. Sieber. From an awkward, frail girl, visibly awed by the new world into which fate had thrust her, she became the purveyor of calculated glamour, icy and generous by turns, distant, temperamental, mysterious. Part of this was the result of coaching by von Sternberg, part of it the changes in her own ego wrought by the amazing publicity campaign organized for her by Paramount. Before Morocco, her next picture, was released Hollywood gazed astonished...
...celebration. The stream of Puritan propaganda from Professor Morison's able pen aroused as much undergraduate indignation about Mistress Eaton's ale and hasty pudding scandals as the student body normal expresses in a Rinehart riot. Rays of past glory were even reflected in the window of a local purveyor, who offered a Tercentenary Cocktail to warm the cockles of your heart after the chilling effects of New England rain in the Tercentenary Theatre. But ghosts from distant times were not the only ones to stalk the stage; the contributions of Eliot and Lowell were in the foreground...
...when it comes of potable age in 1940. ¶Since 12,000,000 sq. ft. of floor space in 101 Government buildings plus 2,500,000 sq. ft. in 103 rented buildings is no longer adequate for the growing horde of New Dealers in Washington, Secretary Ickes. as purveyor of office space to the Government, declared he thought the Social Security Board, Coal Commission and other new boards & bureaus would find it best to go to Baltimore or some other nearby city temporarily. ¶ In the style of General Hugh Johnson. Mr. Ickes slipped off to Detroit to deliver...
Riverside Farm, the boiled eggery, is hot a myth--created by Dining Hall Manager Westcott to add distinction to his morning menus. Plain "Boiled Eggs" would have little appeal, according to Westcott. The term "Riverside" was inspired by Brookside Farm, one time egg purveyor to the University...