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...richly mounted of cinema "fan" magazines (circulation 559,000). The selection of Miss Dougherty (whose signature "Kay Dee" has long been a mark of authority in Photoplay's office) was no surprise. Energetic, aggressive, she had shared control of the magazine with Publisher Quirk for several years. Normally softspoken, Publisher Dougherty can swear like a trooper when dealing with men. Her principal business rival is a woman-red-haired Catherine McNelis, president & publisher of Tower Magazines which include New Movie, Photoplay's most serious competitor. Publisher Dougherty does not inherit Mr. Quirk's title of editor...
Young Senior? Party secretary and manager of the Socialist campaign is a shy, softspoken, bespectacled 28-year-old named Clarence Senior. He was converted to Socialism when he heard Mr. Thomas lecture at the University of Kansas. Manager Senior's fondness for dancing shocks the older members of the party, called "glacial Socialists." Most of these veterans have been pushed into the back-ground at Chicago headquarters, by men around 30 recruited to rally Youth to Socialism. Ready for Nominee Thomas is a campaign itinerary which starts this month in New England, swings to the Pacific Coast and back...
...gets off his favorite saying: "Things don't just happen. You've got to make them happen." On the desk is a card with three questions on it. "What is it?" "How do you know it?" "What of it?" Away from work he is gentle, softspoken, well-mannered. He is married, has five children. Like the polo-playing Firestone boys, Harvey Jr. and Russell Allen, one of whom may some day be president, both of his sons are in the Firestone Co. where they started working in the summer during school holidays...
...store room where buyers can see the actual lots of tobacco they buy, while each seller plainly hears what his neighbor gets for his crop. Most tobacco growers are tenant farmers. Their whole living for the next year is the cash they get at the auctions. Quiet and softspoken, the farmers at Owensboro listened to the auctioneer's jargon as last week's sale began.* The farmers understood this queer, rapid language perfectly; the quiet was short-lived. Tobacco began to sell at an average of $4.61 a hundred pounds against last year...
...Prosecution was headed by softspoken, wild-haired U. S. District Attorney George Emmerson Q (for nothing) Johnson. Field marshal of the Government's forces seeking to break up gang rule by the left-handed method of jailing gangsters for tax evasion, his success would be measured by his ability to dispose of Capone. Frankly disappointed when the "deal" fell through, he was now excited, eager, mysterious. So far he had kept secret the list of his "surprise" witnesses...