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...Enquirer ran 29½ columns of society news on the festival last week. Mr. Benjamin W. Lamson "deserted his own box party to enjoy Miss Ferguson's charming wit and humor." Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott of Dayton "wore her pearls and diamonds in her ears." "Miss Mary Elizabeth Rogan was a dainty charmer. . . ." Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson "was, as always, very distinguee." Mrs. Henry Probasco was "very Grande Dame." The Hinkle box was "a scene of constant va et vient." Mrs. E. W. Edwards' daughter was missed but "she, of course, is not going out if, any large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Amateurs | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

Again the Associated Press was plaintiff, this time against radio station KVOS in Bellingham, Wash. The station, owned by a Scotsman named Rogan Jones, had been helping itself to AP news in the Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Bellingham Herald, broadcasting it thrice a day as "The Newspaper of the Air." AP obtained a temporary restraining order, wanted it made into a permanent injunction. It cited not only the Supreme Court decision, but also a 1933 case in Sioux Falls, S. Dak. where a Federal judge enjoined a radio station from lifting AP news, with the opinion that property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Property & Pirates | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

BLACK FOG-Charles J. Dutton-Dodd, Mead ($2). Murder by poison gas in New England brings Detective Rogan out of pseudo-retirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: May 28, 1934 | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...March 14). Also in court appeared Publisher Clair Maxwell of Life, Publisher George T. Delacorte Jr. of Ballyhoo and a half-dozen lawyers representing unknown clients to bid for the purchase of the magazine. None of them got it. Instead the staff of Judge, headed by Publisher Fred L. Rogan, raised $17,000 cash among themselves, got their magazine back again free of debt. Immediately the staff set to work upon next week's issue, promised there would be no lapse of publication. Reputedly interested in buying a minority share in Judge is wealthy, crusading Cartoonist Percy Crosby ("Skippy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Judge Redeemed | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

Publisher Rogan said Judge's liabilities were $500,000, mostly in bills for his predecessors' fun. The magazine owes him $16,994. Assets include the name, record, credit for coining the "full dinner pail" slogan for the McKinley campaign of 1896, a primary subscription circulation of 130,000 and an indefinite secondary circulation. All these, thinks Publisher Rogan, are worth more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Judge's Fun | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

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