Word: redbook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Able Editor Burton left McCall's in 1927 after five brilliantly successful years, joined Cosmopolitan in 1931. McCall Co.'s other big magazine and Cosmopolitan's rival, Redbook, has been edited since 1927 by quick-thinking Edwin Balmer, who finds time on the side to write many a popular novel, many of them in collaboration with a prolific Redbook contributor, Princeton's Philip Wylie...
...announces U. S. should participate in Olympics. November 8: Morison addresses nation at first meeting of Tercentenary Celebration on Harvard's past. November 14: Hall wins Burr prize. Student Council votes $2500 to PBH. Nov. 19: First Ames Prizes go to Gibson and Johnson. November 22: Bunker named 1939 Redbook head. November 23: Jayvees slaughter Yale 37-7. Varsity drops heartbreaker to end mediocre first season under Harlow. Conant announces plans for roving Professorships. November 27: Ryan, found guilty in janitor case, officially expelled...
Dedicated to the new director of admissions, Richard M. Gummere '07, the new 1939 Redbook is rapidly taking shape, and it will be published...
...Banquet. The whole row was started by General Hugh S. Johnson. Having written the Blue Eagle's biography for the Saturday Evening Post, he was now about to launch his own in Redbook Magazine, which more than 20 years ago printed stories by Lieut. Hugh Johnson entitled "The Suffragette Sergeant" and "Fate's Fandango." As a send-off for the series, Redbook gave Autobiographer Johnson a banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan. The General paid for his meal with a speech...
Most famed of all U. S. hot bond fences was James A. Connolly of Minneapolis who did business as an over-the-counter broker, was listed in the Security Dealers of North America redbook. Though he operated chiefly in the Midwest, his favorite trick was to wire a Manhattan broker for a bid on a block of bonds. Whatever was bid he promptly accepted, then mailed the bonds draft attached to a Manhattan bank, received his money long before the broker sniffed a rat. In New York State a seller of hot goods has virtually the same legal status...