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...week to a New York Deputy Attorney General how a card index was helpful to him in selling stock in Town Topics, "society" gossip sheet. The "prospect" cards, 200 of them, were taken in a raid on the Town Topics offices by State agents who also raided Tatler & American Sketch to investigate its stock-selling tactics (TIME, Dec. 21). Samples...
...Jerome, famed crusading District Attorney of New York, tried unsuccessfully to make it a reason for putting Town Topics, oldtime "society" gossip sheet, out of existence. Last week the editors of Town Topics (still going strong as a 25? biweekly) and of the younger and more venomous Tatler & American Sketch (50? monthly) were in the offices of New York State's Attorney General, each protesting that his magazine employed no fraudulent tactics in selling stock...
...salesmen represent themselves as offering a polite publicity service. They suggest that "our newspapers" want a biographical sketch and a good picture of the subject; that they will see that the family's name is frequently and favorably mentioned; that-by gentle implication- nothing unfavorable regarding any member (client, customer) will appear in print...
...sketch of a tardy couple on a wharf watching a liner disappear on the horizon with the caption below "Don't just stand there. De Something!" Dr. Wells says is a perfect illustration of one of the many things that drives people insane. The picture of a fireman training a great stream of water on a blazing building and exclaiming "Geez, I hope the chief is watching," is the best medium that there is to show an inexperienced student that every individual on earth desires praise...
Everybody-Everywhere. "Seth Parker," composite of many an authentic Down East character, was conceived by Phillips Haynes Lord, 29. Graduate of Bowdoin College in 1925, Mr. Lord wrote unsuccessful short stories, then a radio sketch about rural life in Maine. Success came when he got a radio station in Hartford, Conn, to try out a scene in an old-time singing school, with "Seth Parker" as central figure. National Broadcasting Co. heard of it, signed up Author Lord. Dubious when he began to deepen the religious flavor of his skit, N. B. C. soon discovered it had a treasure. Until...