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Quick's 20,000-copy test run went on sale on newsstands in eight cities from Philadelphia to Tacoma-but not in Manhattan, where Editor & Publisher Cowles had dreamed it up. With Look's staff "and of course Fleur" (Mrs. Cowles), he had knocked the first issue together in four months. If the first issues caught on, Quick would probably go on a national distribution basis next month, get its own staff. Without ads, Cowles figured the new magazine would need 300,000 readers to break even. The trick for Quick was to find that number of busy...
Police revealed yesterday that Bert MacLeech, 40-yard-old student at the Graduate School of Education, was bailed out of jail late Wednesday by a woman identified as his fourth wife. MacLeech had been arrested early that morning on perjury charges, filed by officials in Tacoma, Washington...
...year old student at the Graduate School of Education, reported to have been married to three women at one time, was released on $5000 bail yesterday afternoon after Boston police, acting on orders from Tacoma, Washington, officials, arrested him on charges of perjury...
County Prosecutor Patrick M. Steele in Tacoma reports MacLeech is also known as Burt S. Leech, and that he married in Bulgaria in 1936, in Arizona in 1940, and again in South Carolina in 1943. While still married to all three, Steele states, MacLeech started separation actions against his first wife in Seattle, at which time the alleged perjury was committed...
...main shock of the quake, the most violent and widespread ever to hit the Pacific Northwest, lasted for 40 seconds. When it ended, every activity of the region had been wrenched askew. Hardly an automobile, truck or bus moved; the downtown streets of Seattle, Olympia, Tacoma and other cities were jammed with motionless cars and tens of thousands of people, who had spilled out of doorways, milled between the cars, gazing fearfully upward. Some of the frantic thought of an atom bomb...