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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Publisher Funk devoted a section of Your Life to each of what he considered life's major problems-Health, Love, Fortune, Charm, Children, Conversation-added a section on Words because he is a lexicographer at heart, tossed in a digest of an inspirational book for good measure. Printing short articles in which big names talked to little readers on such subjects as "Be Glad Your Wife's Neurotic" and "Why Commit Suicide?" he soon ran his magazine's circulation to more than...
Vista is worth two glances. Into its four small (5 by 8 in.) pages Andra tosses a potful of private loves & hates, seasons it with letters to the President, with poetry and with her own highly individual short stories. Far from a lure for advertising, Vista usually brings Andra $10 per advertisement (of which she runs five or six), costs her $40 to print and distribute. Andra thinks small publications like hers are the journalism of tomorrow. Last week's contribution to tomorrow's journalism...
...begins to play backwards, the man uncommits suicide by jumping in through the window, the surgeons back in with the body, which comes alive, the letter goes back to the lover, the husband takes back his wife's birthday present and backs happily out the door. If somewhat short on logic in either direction, this piece of Kulturbolsche-whimsey was just as good fun coming as going...
...long-term Government-bond speculation, Expert Porter is bullish: ". . . Whatever occurs, holders of Government securities may be confident that the nation's fiscal authorities will guard their interests in the market so long as the Treasury faces a tremendous program of debt refunding." When she is asked about short-term prospects, she quotes the forecast of an anonymous financier: "The stock market, sir, will fluctuate...
...First National Bank of Pikeville, Ky. entered the bank through a side door, filed past a chiming cuckoo clock, gathered in the directors' room. There Bookkeeper Mary Clark seated herself at a shiny electric organ and began a service consisting of a hymn, ten Bible verses, a short but earnest homily. The homily was delivered by stout, expansive, 39-year-old John Marvin Yost, the bank's vice president, cashier, trust officer and secretary. Sample sentiment: "Pikeville is the grandest town that ever was." At 9 sharp, John Yost and his 14 fellow employes were at their posts...