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This letter is about the unsought and surprising publicity given me by the "March of TIME" on April 17, and TIME, April...
...produce it until Friday night. The play was supposed to be amusing and it was amusing. As the only complex character in the play Miss Lois Hall was successful in a manner of speaking. She delivered her lines with feeling, but the continuous tenseness of her voice lent an unsought atmosphere to certain moments in the first and second acts...
...sooner had J. Edward Jones got that off his chest than there dropped into his lap, unsought and unexpected, an amazing opportunity to put SEC on the spot. One William A. Rabell, a $6,500-a-year assistant chief investigator on the SEC staff who had been working on the Jones case, telephoned Mr. Jones at his Scarsdale home, offering to sell out for $50,000. He promised to reveal how SEC was distorting figures, to show Mr. Jones how he could riddle SEC's evidence, to "play dumb" if necessary, when called as an SEC witness...
...nuisance. So Mrs. Coffman sold some of her horses, put bicycles in the empty stalls. Film stars soon began to wheel madly around & around Palm Springs. Bicycling became a raging West Coast fad, spread rapidly to the East. Thus was born last year's bicycle boom which dropped unsought into the laps of U.S. bicycle makers. In the middle of the 1890's when Daisy Bell ("But you'd look sweet on the seat of a bicycle built for two") was a song hit, 1,000,000 bicycles was a normal year's production but last...
...tariff wall he finds himself accepting subscriptions in Canadian dollars worth U. S. 90?. Most important of all is Reason No. 3. Few U. S. publishers in recent years seriously went after the Canadian Cousin's subscription. The small plum of Canadian distribution found its way almost unsought into U. S. circulation puddings. Canadian circulation of a U. S. periodical holds little lure for big-advertising, international industries like General Motors, Campbell's, Pepsodent, Squibb, Swift, Westclox et al. which manufacture in Canada, must stress that point in special copy directed at their Canadian consumers through Canadian publications...