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Last week it was learned that the Boks have even located a prospective purchaser for the Ledger: the Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc. of Canton, Ohio. President Louis Herbert Brush has owned the small Salem News since 1901. In 1923 he teamed up with Roy Donald Moore to buy the Marion Star from Warren Gamaliel Harding. Other Brush-Moore papers are in Canton, Portsmouth, East Liverpool, Steubenville, Ironton (half interest), Ohio; Salisbury and Wicomico...
...front for Garner is snow-topped, dandyish Roy Miller of Corpus Christi, a well-paid lobbyist for Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. Roy Miller was of course the principal speaker at Red River's send-off last week. Perched on the rear stoop of the weather-blackened Garner shanty, he addressed the gathering of country folk from Possum Trot and Coon-Soup Hollow and assembled cameramen-anticipating most of the obvious objections to Garner-for-President: that he is too old (70 now; 72 by inauguration day in 1941) ; that he is reactionary by New Deal standards, that...
Publisher Roy Howard of the New York World-Telegram was delighted last week by a rowdy little cartoon turned out by his staff artist. Matt Greene. It seemed that the night before in a Third Avenue saloon one John Jones had taken on several other customers, wound up on the floor. Somehow a Miss Lucille Iorio had landed on the floor too, and Mr. Jones proceeded to bite her calf. The bartender then went into action and by the time the police arrived to take Mr. Jones to a psychiatric ward, order prevailed. Having no photograph of the man biting...
...centre of the controversy about whether or not she was married to Charlie Chaplin, then as the centre of the controversy about who would play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. Last week the persistent rumor that Paulette Goddard would be Scarlett was again revived, by Roy Howard's World-Telegram and again denied. Cinemaddicts concluded that, since Gone With the Wind has become practically a phantom picture, Paulette as Scarlett would be good casting to type...
...decided to quit talking about books on current subjects. To avoid such regrettable incidents the conservative Portland Study Club chooses titles with great care, likes Pearl Buck's novels or such works as Bertita Harding's life of Franz Joseph of Austria, Golden Fleece, which Mrs. R. Roy Palmer reviewed last month...