Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...News, and the most spectacular of advertising wars began. The Post offered a gallon of gasoline, at twenty two cents, for each want ad, the News offered three, the Post five, the News seven, and chartered a tearoom for the queue waiting to insert copy. Then Bonfils hired Claire Windsor to stand back of the counter in the Post Building and present each advertiser with a cabbage. The result was a Sunday paper of one hundred and forty six pages, sixty of which carried nothing but classified advertisements. And when the Post hired tight rope walkers to attract Denver...
...suit for alienating the affections of Broker Alfred C. Read Jr. of Oakland, Calif., brought against Film Actress Claire Windsor, 32, by Marian Read in Los Angeles (TIME, Sept. 11): award of $75,000 damages by 10-to-2 vote of a middle-aged jury. Twice-married Actress Windsor planned an appeal, commented: "I have no money and rather than go to work that Mrs. Read may collect, I will get married again...
...Claire Windsor, film actress, defending a $100,000 alienation of affections suit in Hollywood, admitted she had written the following in her first love-letter to Broker Alfred C. Read Jr.: "Darling, you have been gone only three hours. It seems strange to come up to my room and not call you to let you know I am here, and in a few minutes I will be eating alone...
...Stanford University School of Medicine, San Francisco, upon the suggestion of the late Acting Dean Henry George Mehrtens (neuropsychiatrist interested in artificial fevers), Dr. Windsor Cooper Cutting, 25, and Professor Maurice Lane Tainter, 34, have been cautiously trying out the effects of dinitrophenol on themselves, friends and animals. They have found, they declared in an eager preliminary report in the Journal of the American Medical Association, that...
Blushes stained the cheeks of Guards officers and Scotland Yard officials royal scarlet last week. At Windsor Castle, Guardsman Harris of Edward of Wales's own Welsh Guards was court-martialed for falling asleep at his post while the King and Queen were in residence! "I felt ill, sir." said Guardsman .Harris, "and everything went black-like in front of me." At Buckingham Palace sneak thieves sneaked into the Royal Mews and stole from the hooks where it hung the solid gold bosses, buckles, and bangles that glitter on the scarlet leather harness of the eight horses that pull...