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According to Roscoe Fawcett, who put up at the swank Hotel St. Regis last week on one of his periodical visits to Manhattan, the Fawcetts were implored by large independent distributors of magazines to publish a competitor to Ballyhoo, which is circulated solely by American News Co. At first they demurred, until they heard that Bernarr Macfadden was about to enter the lists. Then, because it promised to be a free-for-all and not a private Fawcett v. Delacorte feud, the Fawcetts decided upon Hooey. First issue of 400,000 copies appeared to be a sellout. The first issue...
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi shuffled over the rose-&-yellow carpets of London's swank Grosvenor House last week to a luncheon in his honor by the old Fruitarian Society. While St. Gandhi slowly chomped grapes and baked apples, Dr. Josiah Oldfield, presiding Fruitarian, spoke...
...Biarritz in the swank Hotel du Palais, on the site of a pleasure palace of the Emperor Napoleon III, the World's leading statesmen will again decide, as they did at the Dawes Conference and again at the Young Conference, just what is "Germany's capacity...
...following story became public last week: Three months ago an Isotta-Fraschini salesman was twiddling his thumbs in the company's swank Manhattan showroom. An Isotta-Fraschini is not sold every day. A passerby stopped, peered in. When he came in and started inquiring about the one he liked, the salesman was courteous. When he pulled out a checkbook, asked for a pen, the salesman was startled. When he wrote out a check for $18,500, departed leaving directions that the car be sent to the New York Athletic Club, the salesman looked at the check, was amazed...
...small Wolseley saloon upholstered in scarlet leather. Dignified Sir Samuel Hoare attracted no little attention by popping suddenly from the interior of a small Baby Austin. Despite the secrecy of hotel employes, reporters discovered that St. Gandhi had had a secret conference with Scot MacDonald in the swank Dorchester Hotel...