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...that since Boys Town appeared (TIME, Sept. 12), contributions have totaled $5,000 less than last year and are much slower in coming in. His explanation: The cinema makes out Boys Town to be a firmly established institution, gives the impression that Father Flanagan is the sort of financial wizard who can make shekels out of a shoestring...
Some of these first editions, of which only one or two copies have turned up, are now the rarest U. S. books: The Wonder fid Wizard of Oz (1900), Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick (1868), Little Prudy (1864), The Wide, Wide World (1851), Elsie Dinsmore (1867). A complete collection of first editions listed by Editor Blanck would be worth approximately...
Last week, Track Wizard Toole told his listeners to use the money they won on his tips to buy an R. B. $16.75 suit or overcoat. To each of these purchasers the sales clerk gave a silver dollar to be dropped into a box for Willie Winn. When at week's end he unlocked his box, there were 342 silver dollars for Willie. Since he is a broadcaster of uncertain habits and sudden impulses, the WAAF engineer keeps an alert finger near the control switch, ready to snap him off the air if he should start heading...
...solid wooden pillars of U. S. politics. Scripps-Howard's cartoonist, Harold Talburt, caught the spirit of it in a drawing of Harry Hopkins and Harold Ickes, two urchins standing on the magic table of Franklin the Great, hoisting a third-term rabbit out of the absent wizard...
...through good management. Because others were bidding against him, he paid fancy prices for almost every share he bought. And then, with well-publicized high-pressure campaigns, he sold them to the public, retaining voting control. Many buyers were poor, many were Insull utility customers who thought their operating wizard could do no wrong. But Insull built his pyramid on the erroneous theory that it did not matter how much anyone paid for his stock so long as he was running the show. In 1929 the pyramid was shaken by the market crash. That it did not topple then...