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...Army rates sport news as a morale builder was shown last month. In pre-and post-World Series issues, Taylor Spink and The Sporting News spread themselves on coverage. So did the War Department. They shipped 500,000 extra copies overseas...
Carol of Rumania, now of Mexico, who with Mistress Magda has been trying off & on for two years to get into the U.S., hired a U.S. pressagent to give him a build-up as a democrat. The builder-upper: Manhattan's supersmart Russell Birdwell. Said a Birdwell associate: "The campaign hasn't been laid out yet." But to U.S. newspapers went the best photo of Magda in a publicitycoon...
...State and Territory, three from each of 18 British colonies and others from Germany) were founded under the will of Cecil John Rhodes, Briton who made a fortune mining diamonds, became Prime Minister of South Africa's Cape Colony at 37, died in 1902 famed as the "Empire Builder." The first Rhodes Scholars went from the U.S. to study at England's Oxford University in 1904. The Scholarships have been discontinued for war's duration...
...hopes were based on several things. Boss Rodzinski had demanded, and got, absolute powers over the Philharmonic's artistic policies and personnel, free from all board-of-directors interference. Boss Rodzinski was also a conductor of long experience, particularly famed among musicians as an orchestra builder and repairer. He had, in 1933, developed the bush-league Cleveland Orchestra into one of the Middle West's two finest (the other: the Chicago Symphony). He had been picked by Arturo Toscanini in 1937 to organize and train the NBC Symphony. Last spring Rodzinski got ready for his New York...
...behalf. In a series of advertisements in newspapers and trade magazines it had been preparing for its Oct. 19 hearing (at which postal examiners will determine Esquire's right to continue to use second-class mail) by back-patting itself as a soldier-sailor morale builder...