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...Seventeen men are still competing in the Singles B tournament, while the doubles matches are very little advanced. In the Freshman tournament, C. A. Roberts and Carl Helmholz have reached the semi-finals, while R. W. Gilder, Germaine Glidden, and James Thackara have entered the quarter-final brackets...
...Seventeen years ago in Chicago an attractive, blue-eyed miss named Katherine Dougherty got a $15-a-week job as assistant bookkeeper for a skimpy little pamphlet called Photoplay. Last week Miss Dougherty went from the Chicago to the Manhattan office of Photoplay to succeed the late James R. Quirk as president & publisher. In the interim she had folded circulars, addressed envelopes, read manuscripts, worked 40 Sundays a year for the first five years. She is still attractive and young looking. Photoplay is no longer a pamphlet but the most dignified, most richly mounted of cinema "fan" magazines (circulation...
...that his treatments, consisting solely of manipulation of the feet, last about 20 sec. each. Impressed, Author Beach wrote an article on "The Pain Killer" which appeared in the August Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan (circulation 1,700,000) with photographs of Dr. Locke, his clinic, his strong hands. Seventeen afternoon Hearst papers (circulation 3,200,000) spread the story...
...Seventeen years ago when Cincinnati's Zoological Gardens were in peril of closing, two wealthy women came forward and saved them. Cincinnati Traction Co., owner of the property, threatened to break it up, sell it as building lots. Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft, wife of the publishing half-brother of William Howard Taft, gave $125,000 to prevent the split-up. Another $125,000 was given by Mrs. Mary Emery whose father-in-law, Thomas Emery, made one of the first big real estate fortunes in Cincinnati, increased it by manufacturing lard oil and candles...
...arts. Trained in harmonies, a man will begin to try to harmonize himself. Of his cacophonies he will no longer say. " 'Well, I am like that' or 'The Lord made me what I am,' which has some charm, perhaps, when associated with sweet seventeen but other wise is pretty sickening." This self-harmonizing, self-training, is for the Abbe the beginning of wisdom, and the Good. Though "a commonwealth of intelligent egoism has been built by the millions, and a skillful combination of the idealism of the few with the contributions of the many has largely...