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...Cowles treatment for sick minds-after any body, nerve, or brain diseases have been treated-is to give the patients mild medication and then to force them to do the very things which they fear to do. Hard reason and scant sympathy accomplish much in the large, book-&-furniture crowded consulting room of his private Park Avenue Hospital...
Last week Founder Lamade's bald Son George, vice president, was in Manhattan to see what he could do about boosting the scant national advertising in Grit. The paper has prospered on circulation profits, but Benton & Bowles advertising agency discovered by the way Grit readers responded to a jelly-making contest last autumn that it should be an excellent medium for household advertising. Thus far Grit's advertising has been predominantly the tawdry patent medicine type. Excerpt from an advertisement of "The Medicine Man" in the anniversary issue: "An Indian Chief told my Father that a tea made by taking...
Even without a byline, Sun readers could recognize O'Malley stories. But it was his brothers in the craft who best appreciated how much O'Malley could make of scant material. Essentially he was a newsman's newsman...
...primary presidential poll conducted by the CRIMSON last spring. Roosevelt nosed out Newton Baker for the Democratic nomination by a scant eight votes, while Hoover was the Republican choice by an overwhelming margin...
...Army" came in handy, there were only 600 taxicabs and they carried in two trips only one of the 56 Allied divisions then opposed by 44 German divisions. Galliéni, whom the French Cabinet had left behind as Military Governor of Paris when they tied to Bordeaux, received scant official thanks for his astuteness at the Marne, incurred Joffre's enmity, was forced out of active command and died at Versailles in 1916. But merit triumphed. On April 21, 1921, to the rapturous delight of Paris, dead General Galliéni was posthumously created a Marshal of France...