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Edgar Kobak, vice president & general sales manager of McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., was elected president of the Advertising Federation of America at its 28th annual convention, in Manhattan, succeeding Gilbert Tennent Hodges, member of the executive board of the New York Sun, who was made board chairman, a position vacant for the past two years...
...Four years ago Author Homer AY. Smith transported to the U. S., after a Guggenheim-sponsored year in Africa, 28 lungfish (Protoplecus acthiapicus Heckel). Twenty-seven of them died. Fortnight ago the 28th had completed three and one-half years of estivation in its mud-pie in a laboratory at New York University Medical College...
...cards for the Culbertsons, even with a brilliant victory in the 28th rubber, left Lenz & Jacoby 5,650 points ahead. Ely Culbertson refused a $250 bet offered by Mr. Lenz for a friend...
Many a bright stenographer at the 28th Annual National Business Show in Grand Central Palace, Manhattan, last week, demanded demonstrations of the newest office mechanisms. Polite salesmen responded by giving a performance of the self-feeding typewriter, more like a player piano than a desk machine, with characters for any language except Hebrew and Chinese. Others displayed an attachment that recorded telephone messages which came while the boss was out, spoke them to him in dulcet tones on his return. Dictaphones, check writers, letter openers and folders indicated that the secretary of the future may need only to be decorative...
...cold day just before Christmas in 1870, two actors went to Rev. William Tufnell Sabine, rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Atonement at Madison Avenue & 28th Street in Manhattan. One of them (though Mr. Sabine did not recognize him) was the great Joseph Jefferson, who had been playing Rip Van Winkle since 1859 in various versions. He explained that his old friend George Holland had died; this was Mr. Holland's son Edward; they wished to arrange for the funeral. Then he added that Mr. Holland had been a well-known oldtime actor. Mr. Sabine...