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...game-making companies like Milton Bradley Co. and Parker Bros, turned to cheap, cardboard-backed jigsaw. Einson-Freeman's 3,000,000 puzzles account for more than half the total sales today, with the fad being pushed by newspaper colyumists, cartoonists and editorial writers, by radio gag men and smart cocktail party devotees. Simon & Schuster, crossword pioneers, issued $1 puzzles designed by Peter Arno, William Steig, Otto Soglow, Tony Sarg...
Zantford D. ("Granny") Granville, 32, is eldest of five brothers. After two years as a mechanic in the Chevrolet factory he started a garage in Arlington, Mass., took in Brother Thomas. That was in 1919. When the garage business was running smoothly, they formed Granville Bros. Air Service. All they needed was a plane and someone to fly it, both of which they hired. Their education progressed. They established a repair service at Boston Airport, did so much business that soon there was room for Brothers Edward, Mark, Robert. In time, all but Tom got pilots' licenses...
...rewarded by their sovereign with titles, promotions, ribbons, For at least five years British art dealers have awaited the honors lists with one question uppermost: Would Sir Joseph Duveen, Britain's best known art dealer, finally get his peerage? Sir Joseph, head factor of the firm of Duveen Bros, of Paris, London & New York, has done much to earn himself the honor. He has been lavish with gifts to the British Museum and the Tate Gallery. When young British artists accused him of unfriendliness to modern art Sir Joseph, one of the world's great traffickers in antiquities...
...always happened. Theories for the delay were found in the fact that Sir Joseph has been sued three times for $500,000 for disparaging the paintings of other dealers (to settle the last one out of court cost him $100,000), and that the U. S. Treasury accused Duveen Bros, of mulcting the Government out of $5,000,000 in unpaid duties, accepted $1,080,000 in settlement. Waiting and anxiety were over last week. Right at the top of all newspaper lists of New Year's honors was Sir Joseph Duveen, at last a Baron of the United...
...high on the mammoth stage, with scenery and costumes by Robert Edmond Jones, resident designer. Mr. Jones had also prepared a set for the battle of Fort McHenry where, 'mid Roxy's red glare. Francis Scott Key composed the national anthem. Only Pressagent Dexter Fellows of Ringling Bros. Circus could have done justice to the array of talent which Roxy brought together for the public to gape at and listen to for as long as two hours and as little as 75? including...