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...FINE SUMMER WEATHER - Catherine Whitcomb - Random House ($2). Warm, summery novel covering a warm summer day in a New Hampshire resort, by the author of The Grown-Ups. Although her grown-ups are a little too neat to be plausible. Author Whitcomb's children are shrewd, engaging, unsentimental...
...almost one-third of the newsprint made in the U. S. is made by Great Northern. Great Northern's customers include Scripps-Howard, the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Sun and some 200 smaller papers. To them Great Northern's president, handsome William Arthur Whitcomb, has not been tough in making prices. Result is that he is popular with publishers but poison to his colleagues in the newsprint industry...
...Northern. It has $42,600,000 total assets, no funded debt, and an earned surplus of $16,000,000. It has paid dividends regularly since 1909. In 1936 its profits were $1,200,000, an amount not remarkable for a company of its size but very comforting to Mr. Whitcomb when he reflects that not so long ago 40% of all North American newsprint capacity was bankrupt...
Whether all this indicates monopoly in newsprint, only Homer Cummings knows. Solid, reticent Mr. Whitcomb, though he may not want to speak for Canada, says flatly: "There is no monopoly among U. S. newsprint manufacturers...
...Manhattan agents find their best, highest-priced Coronation Procession seats sold out, or nearly. Thus Raymond Whitcomb, who have the grandstand adjoining Westminster Abbey, have sold all the top-price seats they offered at $262.50 each, have plenty left at down to $94.50 each, their cheapest. Thomas Cook & Son have the stand of 4,000 seats near Hyde Park Corner and throw in with one of these seats a minimum rate inside cabin on the Kimgsholm for $395 roundtrip. This definitely cheap inclusive rate covers dinner, breakfast and bus transport between the ship in the Thames and a point within...