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...Brass Tacks was comparatively dowdy in dress. It had a plain red-bordered cover bearing its table of contents. Typography was commonplace. Prime feature of Brass Tacks was the first instalment of Oklahoma Oilman Ernest Whitworth Marland's story of how he lost control of rich Marland Oil Co. to the "money trust," by which he meant J. P. Morgan...
...topic of the day. Simultaneously this week appeared two magazines of the straight-from-the-shoulder, "let's-get-down-to-cold-facts" type. Each magazine is remotely related to the original Plain Talk* One, issued by H. K. Fly Co., publisher of old Plain Talk, is named Brass Tacks. The other is National Spotlight, published by George T. Delacorte Jr., edited by muckraking Walter W. Liggett, onetime editor of Plain Talk. Apparently on the theory that the reading public is like a sick man who enjoys talk about his ailments, both magazines dwell lingeringly upon the nation's ills...
...Manhattan, on the Mall not far from the Central Park monkeys, summer crowds gathered last week for the first of the band concerts which Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim gives free in memory of her mining husband. The bandsmen all had new dark blue uniforms with G on their brass buttons, their lapels, their caps. The G did not stand for their patroness' name but for Bandmaster Edwin Franko Goldman, who has conducted free Guggenheim concerts for 14 summers...
...both keeps house and pursues her literary career with out family or marital support. Interested in child psychology, education, Communism, she is a member of the Inde pendent Labor Party, writes regularly for I. L. P.'s New Leader. Books: Pilgrims, Confessions & Impressions, Hunger of the Sea, Sounding Brass, Ragged Banners, Common-sense and the Child...
...Elks paraded in Cambridge yesterday. All trousered in red, and accompanied by several puffing brass bands, they strutted up Massachusetts Avenue, wheeled through Harvard Square, a little out of breath, more out of step, but none the less they were a splendid, inspiring sight to see. Urchins, young Penrods, raced along beside them, inwardly echoing the glorious "oompah, pah, pah, oompah, pah, dum," of the horns and drums, and rejoiced, for it was good to hear. Freshmen hung out of the windows of Wigglesworth and watched languidly, glad for an excuse to leave their books, but watchful lest they forget...