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¶ Life insurance underwriters meeting in Chicago heard sharp criticism, of the practice of underwriting huge policies (called "jumbos") of $1,000,000 or more. Vice President John Melvin Laird of Connecticut General Life observed that responsible companies have grown shy of underwriting jumbos, that they are a dangerous risk...
Manhattan newspaper offices for the last three weeks have buzzed about a Hearst "raid" on feature writers of the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram. Over to Hearst went Fashion Writer Prunella Wood and Shopping Colyumist Alice Hughes. Last week it became known that Heywood Broun had received a Hearst offer, turned...
At 5 p. m. one day last week in Denver, just as Scripps-Howard's Rocky Mountain News was putting its early edition to press, something dreadful happened in the composing room. The gas flames under the linotype machines flickered and died. Floods had broken the Texas gas pipeline...
*The other: Scripps-Howard's Washington News.
Doughty shark-hunters, we view disdainfully the "exciting experience" of Mr. Holzman of Cincinnati, who reports in these columns (TIME, Aug. 21) how he was roused from his absorption in TIME by the whirring sound of an unwinding reel and forgot all else as he "found and finally landed" a...