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Married. John Collier, 59, earnest, able U.S. Indian Commissioner since 1933: and Laura Thompson, 37, the University of Chicago's coordinator of Indian Education studies; each for the second time; two days after divorce ended his 37-year-long first marriage; at the Stewart Indian Agency...
When the Army canceled the contracts ($3,800 a year, plus 25% for overseas service), a half dozen magazines saw an opportunity. Collier's signed up Howard Cook. LIFE took over contracts with Bruce Mitchell, Millard Sheets, Aaron Bohrod, Reginald Marsh and eight others. It still is dickering with five more.* Said Editor Boswell: ". . . It will be another example of private enterprise having better judgment of relative values than Government...
...became an elevator boy at the Republican House when he was 13, rarely left its billiard room. Instead of firing him, the manager ordered his proficient boy employe to play with well-paying guests, and he soon became the favorite of billiard-playing Actors Joseph Jefferson, Richard Mansfield, Willian Collier, Kate Emmett. He watched the distinguished and dazzling performances of billiard greats Jake Schaefer Sr. and Frank Ives. While still uniformed after his return from the Spanish-American War, Peterson took a beating from beknickered Willie Hoppe, but got his revenge later in an exhibition match (1906) when...
...rushed back to New York, typed up 13 pages of notes on the train and carried them to the managing editor of Collier's. Collier's gave Captain Lawson $12,000 for first serial rights. Working from 9 a.m. until 3 the next morning, Considine and Lawson put together Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo in six sessions. Lawson made his corrections on the back of each sheet...
Random House's Bennett Cerf gave Lawson and Considine an advance of $7,500. (Considine asked for $5,000.) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid $100,000 for movie rights. Except for the $12,000 from Collier's, which was entirely Captain Lawson's (the magazine paid Considine $4,500), the flyer and the newspaperman divided the book's earnings-two-thirds to Lawson, one-third to Considine...