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...News. Except at Easter and Christmas, most newspapers have generally kept religion stories on the "church news" page, a dull collection of building-fund reports, warmed-over sermons and church-supper notes surrounded by profitable church ads. These pages sound the same week after week, bore editors as much as they do most readers. But last Easter, editors who ran Oursler's Greatest Story got a surprise; readers were so interested that circulation jumped 5,000 to 10,000 on several papers. The Chicago Daily News started the Greatest Story on Page One, kept it there under news headlines...
...pictures bore out Art Valpey's statement that Harvard played one of its hardest-hitting games last Saturday...
...1890s the Moulin Rouge was the gayest dance hall in Paris. It had little Tunisian donkeys which bore cancan girls on their backs, an immense papier-mâché elephant which hid a troupe of dancers and an entire orchestra in its belly. It also had rough & ready Louise Weber (known for her lusty appetites as La Goulue-the glutton), who nightly exposed her shapely limbs and 60 yards of lace lingerie in hectic kicks and splits. To publicize her, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec did his first poster...
Public Notice. In Greensboro, N.C., a downtown office building bore the sign: "W. E. Crayton, Justice of the Peace & Notary Public. Marriages Consummated. Room No. 3 Upstairs...
...British aircraft industry gave up any immediate hope of turning out the best conventional airliners in the world. It left that to the U.S., which in wartime had concentrated on bombers and transports (easily convertible to commercial use) while Britain bore down on fighter production. Instead, the British, who had led the world in developing jet engines, put their brains and money to work on jet transports, which they hoped would some day make current U.S. airliners obsolete...