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American, which began life in the days of the second Grant Administration as Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, embraced the whole rise of mass magazine journalism. Changed to American in 1906, it spent a muckraking youth publishing Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell and Ray Stannard Baker, made its biggest impact under Editor John Siddall, who pushed circulation from less than 500,000 to over 2,000,000 between 1915 and 1923 with the inspirational magic of success stories. In its time, American was the first to run Kipling's If and Edna Ferber's short stories, ranged...
...Caimi (Capt.), Marion A. Check, Joseph F. Crelore William E. Crosby, 3rd, James E. Donaghy, Joseph J. Giampa, Lawrence S. Halpern, Ragan A. Henry, William M. Hickey, Jr., Thomas D. Jones, Thomas A. Kahrl, George L. MacDonald, William G. Markos, Paul J. Murphy, George N. Nager, Richard M. Oehmler, Stannard B. Pfahl, Jr., Samuel F. Quarterone, Sherin L. Samuels, John F. Schereschewsky, Joseph J. Stein, Peter Summers, Irvin W. Templeton, Arthur W. Ticknor, Donald F. Weber, George F. Zinninger...
...Finney, 3d, Thomas J. Gill, 3d, Robert L. Goldberg, Walter F. Greeley, Herbert Grossman, Boylston A. Hinds, Richard M. Hoffman, Frederick S. Horween, Peter W. Kenney, Richard J. Koch, John B. Lynch, Jr., George L. MacDonald, Jr., William T. Maloney, Robert N. Margolis, Leon F. Markoff, Jerry R. Marsh, Stannard B. Pfahl Jr., Robert E. Richter, David M. Silverman, Irvin W. Templeton, Roger H. Vaglia, Marinus G. K. Van Gessel, Erwin F. Vonderlage Jr., Frank H. White, Robert H. Zuege, Marcus Schoenfeld...
...reux Ruest, 54, was the man who manufactured the time bomb that exploded and killed 23 people (including President E. T. Stannard of Kennecott Copper Corp. and two other Americans) on a Quebec Airways plane in September 1949. A watchmaker, Ruest made the bomb with a stick of dynamite and the mechanism of an alarm clock for his friend Albert Guay, in return for a $10 ring. Guay wanted to kill his wife, who was on the plane, not only because he had a mistress whom he preferred, but also to collect a $10,000 insurance policy...
High-grade morons (with a mental age of between ten and twelve years), said the institute's Research Director James Stannard Baker, make the best automobile drivers. If the moron's eyesight is a little below par, all the better-keeps his mind on the job. "The operation of a motor car," Baker explained, "is too dumb a job to command the attention of those who are particularly bright." And people with sharp eyes are apt to be distracted by shop windows or pretty faces...