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Publishers are also aware that the Post, Collier's and Liberty have long been jockeying for preferred time-position on the newsstands. On the theory that a magazine becomes a backnumber after the date printed on its cover, Liberty and Collier's are dated more than a week later than their appearance. The Post hitherto depended on the big weekend trade to absorb its newsstand stock, sometimes sent boys about on Monday to pick up remaining copies of the current issue and peddle them as best they could. By moving ahead to Tuesday, the Post presents itself with two more...
Barron G. Collier, advertising . . . S.C.D...
Oscar Sutermeister '32, one of Harvard's intercollegiate champions, will be defending his pole vaulting title on Saturday, his record height being 13 feet, 6 inches. This year Sutermeister has come up slowly, failing to place in the triangular meet last February, when Everett Collier of Cornell took first with a vault of 13 feet, 10 1-4 inches; second honors went to Noyes of Dartmouth at 13 feet, the Hanover athlete's place being largely responsible for the Harvard victory in the end when Farrell's forces eked out a 42 1-2 to 41-point victory over Cornell...
...Autogiro came swimming down upon the South grounds of the White House?first airplane landing on the President's domain. A few minutes later President Hoover presented the Collier Trophy to Harold F. Pitcairn and associates for their development of the Autogiro...
Peter Ibbetson, As if to invite comparison with the Metropolitan Opera's recent production (TIME, Feb. 16), the Brothers Shubert have revived John N. Raphael's and Constance Collier's dramatization of George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson. As a libretto for Deems Taylor's music. Peter Ibbetson seemed peculiarly apt, and Joseph Urban did some notable settings for it. The Shuberts' play is not so well mounted. The fanciful story of two lovers who, parted as children, meet only in their dreams in later life and are only wholly reunited in death, is one which ; goes...