Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during the War, but not in aviation. He embarked upon a field of work new to U. S., but it was not aviation. Mr. Payne took charge of the New York Daily News, the first of Manhattan's tabloid newspapers. Under his daring guidance it became an undreamed of success. Such a success that William Randolph Hearst engaged Mr. Payne to edit his New York tabloid, the Daily Mirror. The Mirror jumped amazingly in circulation. Last week Philip A. Payne jumped from Old Orchard, Me., in Mr. Hearst's airplane the Old Glory; splashed into the rough and foggy...
Engaged. Julia Wainwright Robbins Hoyt, 30, actress; to Louis Camera, actor. A onetime sketch artist for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, he made his first stage success in Cobra in 1924, and last winter appeared with Miss Hoyt in The Dark. She in 1914, aged 17, married Lydig Hoyt, clubman, divorced him in Paris in 1924. She made her stage debut with William Faversham, in a revival of The Squaw Man in 1921. The two years following she spent with Stuart Walker's Stock Co. in Indianapolis & Cincinnati...
...shuffles off with a chorine of the Manhattan Follies, she cannot bring herself to marry a princely cattle rancher of the prairies, whose great heart and expansive properties are spread at her feet. She finds herself completely subject to her first, trashy love; follows him through his glimmer of success and his nights of degeneracy, hopelessly, happily enslaved by a pair of stuffed, checked pants...
...editorial announcement inserted are certain credos: "American readers have proved . . . their absorbing interest in records of success from all phases of life. ... In a country where preferment awaits those who help themselves, a record of success becomes a lesson in opportunity. . . . There lies behind the striving of each winner a story that contains both interest and inspiration. This magazine will devote itself to discovering the thrills and the lessons in these life stories...
Cynics shied at Personality; saw in it a highly polished variation of the copy book maxim morality through which every U. S. boy is assured he can become President. Said one: "Just like Success and the American Magazine-only more...