Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editorial offices buzzed early this year when Charles Fulton Oursler, 44, well-paid editor-in-chief for Bernarr Macfadden's 5? weekly Liberty magazine, popped into the spotlight with a $150,000 libel suit against his employer's estranged wife, Mary Macfadden (TIME, Feb. 1). Editor Oursler charged she had written three nasty letters about him, one to New Jersey's Governor Hoffman, two to Hoffman's secretary. One of the alleged letters went so far as to suggest that Mr. Oursler might have conspired the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, intending to glorify Bernarr Macfadden by having...
...Manure family in 1931 joined thousands of other disillusioned immigrants and trekked back to Italy. In 1935 Fortunato Manure was called up by the Fascist Government, popped into a uniform and set to digging roads in Ethiopia. Last week unfortunate Fortunato Manure, bearded, bedraggled, found himself in the spotlight of world news, blinking at a row of Red Militiamen in the cellar...
...National Biscuit Co., with its innumerable packaged, trademarked lines, outmoded the old-fashioned cracker barrel, then American Sugar Refining Co. must be credited with overturning the oldfashioned sugar barrel. In both these grocery store revolutions Earl D. Babst played a spotlight role. A lawyer-turned-merchandiser, Sugarman Babst learned about trademarking as National Biscuit's general counsel, a job which involved hundreds of infringement suits, and in his Manhattan office today he has two shelves of calf-bound law books recording his legal commercial victories. Later as a Biscuit vice president, he learned about packaging, advertising, national markets, consumer...
...lover of the spotlight is Harrison Williams, though he gave evidence last week of having grown as much in poise as in fortune since the day in 1890 when he forgot his graduation speech at the high school in Elyria, Ohio. Young Harry's penmanship got him his first job as a bookkeeper. By the late 18903 he was in business for himself, making bicycles. At 30 he had had enough of Elyria, sold out, headed for the cold shadows of Wall Street to begin his real career. In 1906 he took a hand in splicing a group...
Melt copper with tin and you get bronze, probably the oldest, certainly one of the most useful alloys in the world. Last week the Albright Art Gallery of Buffalo popped into the spotlight with an exhibition illustrating the history of bronze-casting from about 3000 B.C. to the 20th Century. Eschewing such utilitarian objects as Roman swords, motorboat propellers and bank tellers' cages, the gallery has assembled a collection of 173 statuettes, all of them of first rank, only one (a Degas figurine) the property of the Albright Art Gallery. Most liberal lenders were New York's Metropolitan...