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Harvard Freshman--Stroke, A. H. Parker '32; 7, W. C. Thompson '32; 6, S. C. Pierce '32; 5, J. V. Veeder '32; 4, Desmond Fitzgerald '32; 3, T. E. Armstrong '32; 2, F. F. Coleredo-Mansfeld '32; bow, T. M. Page '32; cox, Crispin Cooke...
...George V's preference for Daimlers dates from the purchase of a one-cylinder car of that make by his father, Edward VII. That young iconoclast, Edward of Wales, owns a Rolls-Royce town car, but like his father uses a Crossley in the field. The Sovereign's sister, Queen Maud of Norway, recently gave her son, Crown Prince Olaf, a U. S. Marmon sedan (purchased in London) for a wedding present...
Died. Michael Michaelovitch Romanov. 68, Grand Duke of Russia, cousin of Nicholas II, son of the late great Grand Duke Michael Nicholaevitch (1832-1909); in London, where his daughter Nadejda is the smart Marchioness of Milford Haven, wife of Prince George Mountbatten, potent kinsman of George V. Once used to an income of five million dollars. Grand Duke Michael had recently been employed in the British civil service at a salary...
...Lucky Instead of a Sweet" series, the publicity war has already produced an astonishing number of alarms and excursions. Indignant outbursts have proceeded from Candy Weekly and other sugar centres. Competing cigarets have rebuked the Lucky campaign.* Advertising itself has engaged in an intermural struggle over "tainted" v. "honest" testimonials. The Better Business Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission have been invited to act as advertising disinfectants. Object of last week's attack, however, was not directly American Tobacco Co., but Merlin Aylesworth's National Broadcasting Co., nation-wide radio chain. Possibly despairing in their endeavor to convince the Lucky...
...Open Letter neither the tobacco nor the radio company has replied. The Lucky v. Sweet campaign has not recently been appearing in U. S. newspapers. The N F P P C attributes this absence to an awakened journalistic conscience; the advertising agency (Lord & Thomas and Logan) preparing Lucky advertising says that the campaign has finished its allotted run, will shortly be followed by another. Whether this new campaign will continue the Luckies v. Sweets campaign has not been announced, though President George Washington Hill of American Tobacco Co. (originator of the anti-sweet idea) has never exhibited the slightest signs...