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...Park Row no longer has any significance, and the owls whose illuminated eyes once ogled Herald Square from the old Herald Building only appear now at "alumni" dinners. But across the continent last week the hoary symbol of another great newspaper settled down on its third perch atop a brand new building. For the great bronze eagle of the 54-year-old Los Angeles Times is the mascot of a publishing property still very much alive...
...Lords: ¶ Were treated to a vigorous denunciation of Democracy-particularly the U. S. brand-and a spirited defense of Fascism by that strong-minded patriarch, the Bishop of Exeter, Rt. Rev. Lord William Gascoyne-Cecil, whose father, the late great Marquess of Salisbury, was thrice Prime Minister...
...Safeway. Merchandise began pouring into Safeway Stores a few minutes after the early editions carrying the announcement hit the street. For Puritan bacon sold by competitors at 18? per Ib. Safeway was offering 34? for 3-lb. Crisco tins, 54? against the cut-rater's 29?; for National Brand butter 29? against 13?. The rush lofted to a peak the first day, then dwindled rapidly until, within three days, the volume of incoming merchandise amounted to only a handful of items. Reason: cut-raters had been forced to drop "loss leaders" entirely soon after the rush started...
...brand which he has chewed since he was 21. In Washington it was hard to get. He had the Senate Restaurant stock it for him. His consumption: two 20? plugs...
...Reconstruction days after the Civil War good housewives bought "Pratt's Astral Oil," a clear-burning, high-grade brand of kerosene refined on Long Island by two bright young men named Charles Pratt and H. H. Rogers. John Rockefeller bought out their firm in 1874, taking the two partners with him. At that time Herbert Lee Pratt was a three-year-old in the oilman's large family. When he was 23 and his father had grown exceedingly rich as a Rockefeller henchman. Son Herbert was graduated from Amherst in the Class of 1895 along with Dwight Morrow...