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Thus having gained the confidence of Woolworth executives, Agents McNelis & Weir ambitiously toyed with another idea. Why not sell magazines in Woolworth's???not magazines already in existence, but magazines edited especially for Woolworth customers, sold only in Woolworth stores? There was an outlet of approximately three billion persons annually passing up and down Woolworth aisles; people who had come not just to look but to spend. Last year they spent $287,000,000. The proposition was propounded to the executives. This time there were no deaf ears, little hesitancy. Four magazines, McNelis-Weir executed, will be sold in Woolworth...
...Senator's brilliant younger son, Philip La Follette, lecturer on law at the University of Wisconsin (TIME, Oct. 22). It is in this son rather than in his older brother, "Young Bob," the present Senator, that the father is still visible. It was in a gesture of Son Philip's???quickly gripping the arms of his chair?that Sculptor Davidson found the final and finishing accent for the statue...
THAT DINNER AT BARDOLPH'S?...
Going on the principle that he is a shrewd fellow who gets away with what he can while he can? but making a noise like a loose-tongued woman who is losing her reputation and tries to regain it at the expense of her neighbor's??? the Denver Posts, morning and evening phenomena published by Fred G. Bonfils, onetime river gambler and circus promoter, last week furnished their niche in the Rocky Mountains with as ingenious a piece of journalism as ever misled simple citizens...
Mortimer Leo Schiff is the only "son"?Jacob Henry Schiff's???and he is the youngest (born 1877) of the present four partners. Like President Coolidge, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Arthur Curtiss James, Frank Waterman Stearns, Herbert Lee Pratt, Bruce Barton, Alexander Meiklejohn, the late Henry Ward Beecher, Harlan F. Stone, Frederick H. Gillett, Robert Lansing, Charles E. Mitchell, Joseph B. Eastman, Henry C. Hall, Frank J. Goodnow, he is an Amherst man. Unlike them, he was never graduated, because in his sophomore year he decided he did not want to be just a "rich man's son." He left...