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Some magazine publishers nowadays behave like pamphleteers. They cup their ears to catch the drift of public conversation, whip together magazines on most-discussed topics???liquor, unemployment, crime, politics, sex?launch them as "one-shotters." If the first issue sells, subsequent issues are published; if it does not, the venture is dropped...
Friend W. Richardson of Californias "As he talks, especially as he becomes interested in one of his favorite topics???economy, for instance?he looks out at you from under extraordinarily heavy eyebrows, and his eyes snap and his brows twitch. He buries superficial crudities under a river of picturesque language, which flows from a mountain of facts. Suddenly, you do think that he's the Governor, and you understand how it is that in the end he 'gets...
Married. Sebastian S. Kresge, 56, famed five and ten cent store operator, to Mabel Doris Mercer, daughter of George A. Mercer (onetime partner of Andrew Carnegie) and divorced wife of Percival Harden, publisher of The Club Fellow (a weekly similar to Town Topics???only more blatant); in Manhattan. He was divorced (TIME, March 3) by Anna Harvey Kresge, who charged lack of affection, sulking...
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