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...interest and taxes. Meanwhile, as State and Federal inquiries continued, louder & louder grew the clamor for the return of Samuel Insull and his son from Paris, of Martin John Insull from Canada. Each of them last week received a communication from State's Attorney John A. Swanson: "Revelations . . . disclosed by my investigation make it imperative that you return . . . for questioning. Advise by cable if you will return voluntarily...
...Redfield, S. Dak., Senator Peter Norbeck announced that when Congress reassembles his Wall Street-lashing committee on banking & currency will investigate the Insull affair. In Chicago, U. S. District Attorney Dwight F. Green, whose office gathered the Capone-jailing evidence, started an inquiry. State's Attorney John A. Swanson demanded a $50,000 appropriation, to be used in weeding the Insull records for evidence of criminal acts. A committee of bondholders sought subpenas for Samuel Insull, now in Paris, and Martin John Insull, in Ontario. Samuel Insull Jr. suddenly sailed to join his father in Paris...
Small, shorthaired, smart-looking Editrix Foster, 31, has been sitting in the editorial chair for six months, since outgoing Editor Swanson took leave of absence to try his hand at the film business. She is "the kind of woman editor who can tie up loose ends." Her first job, in 1921, was in the advertising department of Bookman, under Stanley Marshall Rinehart Jr.; her next, as assistant to Editor John Chipman Farrar. Farrar & Rinehart later published her first novel, Big Business Girl, co-authored by Editor Swanson. After Bookman was sold Mrs. Foster worked for the George H. Doran...
...outgrowth of the defunct Collegiate World, College Humor began in 1921 as a quarterly, the staff & equipment consisting chiefly of Publisher Lansinger, shears and pastepot. It was merely a scrapbook of cartoons and jokes from U. S. under graduate funny-books. In 1923 long, lean, curly-headed "Swanie" Swanson, fresh out of Grinnell College where he edited the Malteaser, got a job as Mr. Lansinger's secretary. He worked up to the editorship, was largely responsible for the editorial polish which College Humor later acquired as a monthly magazine of original fiction, articles, drawings, interspersed with clippings from the campus...
Energetic Editor Swanson went after big-name contributors. Many of them appeared only once; sometimes their contributions would be brief or palpably second-rate. Occasionally ? as in the case of Donald Ogden Stewart's Rebound and Noel Coward's Private Lives which had already been produced on the stage ? they were comparatively stale. But the names on the cover, names like Alec Waugh. George Jean Nathan, Stephen Vincent Benet, Wallace Irwin, were impressive...