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...Alert Editor George Horace Lorimer promptly seized upon the plan for Curtis Publishing Co. Last February, Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal were on sale in a few Kroger stores; last week in 1,459; next month in 350 more. Each magazine is rolled inside a wrapper bearing the Kroger name, and a legend suggesting that most of the advertised food and grocery products are available where the magazine was bought...
...noble Austrian family. His knowledge of European military technique and court etiquette seemed to bear out his claim that he had graduated from the Imperial Military Academy. During years of penury in the U. S. he had been a flypaper salesman, riding master, lifeguard, section hand, bundle wrapper, and forest ranger. When Hun villains were no longer in demand he sold Carl Laemmle the idea for a picture-The Pinnacle. Laemmle changed the name to Blind Husbands. "No one vill go to see de pinochle." Von Stroheim directed and played the lead. He arranged stories for other pictures. His best...
...made him faint in the Cincinnati station. The doctor who examined him in Lawyer Klein's home diagnosed his condition as exhaustion caused by self-starvation. The Kleins fed their wandering friend (he used to mail the Klein children sticks of gum with a dime slipped under each wrapper), tried to put him to bed. He insisted on sleeping on a mattress, on the attic floor. Refreshed, he insisted he must go on from Cincinnati to Staunton, Va., Woodrow Wilson's birthplace. He refused a Pullman ticket, made the hot trip in a day coach. At Staunton...
Alfred Emanuel Smith was thus publicized in a Japanese newspaper which reached the U. S. last week as a merchandise wrapper: "Mr. Alfred E. Smith, ex-candidate for the presidency of the Democratic Party, has secured one-fifth interest in the management of the Giant baseball team . . . and, according to unconfirmed reports, he will be chosen the chief player of that team."- Senator William Edgar Borah...
Philatelist Hind also brought with him from his $2,000,000 collection his famed "Mauritius cover." A "cover," in stamp language, is any envelope or package wrapper to which stamps are affixed. Mr. Hind's Mauritius cover, bearing a tuppenny and a one-penny Mauritius stamp, is considered philately's most valuable item, worth $50,000 at least. Mauritius is a knobby little island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar, once (1598-1710) a Dutch colony, once (1715-1814) a French colony, ever since a British possession...