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...Boyd's City Dispatch of Manhattan has been in the wholesale name business for 105 years. To salesmen and promoters it sells long lists of wealthy widows, clubmen, semi-millionaires, millionaires, multimillionaires and plain rich people. Last week Boyd's City Dispatch mailed out to its clients Bulletin 68-the latest name-list quotations. For $200 an energetic advertising manager can get the names of 14,441 people in New York City worth $100,000 or more. A batch of 721 multimillionaires costs $15, the wealthiest widows of Greater New York (1,172), $20. For $17.50 a buyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Good Names | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

Thus last week Editors George Jean Nathan, Ernest Boyd, Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell & Eugene O'Neill availed themselves of the "out" they had wisely prepared in the first issue of The American Spectator, literary and critical review (TIME, Oct. 31, 1932). The magazine, resembling a monthly newspaper, had made a modest success. Circulation (claimed) reached 30,000-about 10,000 more than was needed to break even. Advertising income was fairly good. All told, the project cleared about $70 a year for each of the editors, which was more than they had expected but not enough to anchor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Retiring Spectators | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...TIME OF PEACE-Thomas Boyd- Minton, Batch ($2.50). Story of the post-War U. S., a sequel to Through the Wheat; Author Boyd's posthumous book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 4, 1935 | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

Died, Thomas Alexander Boyd, 36, author (Through the Wheat, Mad Anthony Wayne, Lighthorse Harry Lee); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Ridgefield, Conn. He left two posthumous works, In Time of Peace (sequel to Through the Wheat) and Poor John Fitch, Inventor of the Steamboat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 4, 1935 | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

...CLIFFORD BOYD BURR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 12, 1934 | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

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