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THIS sprightly offering from the pen of Paul Morand attempts to capture the flavor of today's Paris, and set it down for the edification of cosmopolitan and Philistine. Most of the comments concern street scenes, the markets, coster-mongers, cafes, street fairs, flea markets, gardens, and children. Fortunately, the book does not attempt to generalize about the beauty or the grandiloquence or the triviality of Paris, but presents only a collection of random pen-pictures of the city, which are pleasing in their familiarity, without being too cute. The book is no Baedeker, but it will give...
...Fish--himself a Harvard man--to find fault with her recognition of a Bolshevik son. Mr. Fish insists that the committee which presented the portrait "was intellectuals and others who are trying to undermine and destroy our present form of government." How, exactly, does such a charge, if true, concern Harvard's acceptance? Her interest is in John Reed, not the committee, and this would be true if the latter had been composed of bond salesmen. We would suggest to Mr. Fish that the only legitimate point of attack in the whole affair is the portrait itself. Is it good...
Thirteen years ago Listerine's admen made the U. S. public halitosis-conscious. Since then newspaper and magazine advertising pages have been smeared with warnings of strange afflictions discovered by copywriters. Last week Printers' Ink counted up 93, of which 63 directly concern the human body. Nineteen afflict the skin, 13 concern the oral cavity, eight visit the digestive tract. Counting five bad-breath plagues included in the oral category, twelve have to do with nasty smells...
...priceless asset to Coca-Cola's claims department is Perry Wilbur Fattig. When a customer says he was harmed by something he found swishing around in the bottom of a Coca-Cola bottle, Curator Fattig stands ready to eat what the customer did. Most cases concern drowned bugs and Curator Fattig has convinced many a jury that creatures drowned in carbonated beverages are harmless. For Coca-Cola and other soft-drink makers he has eaten over 10,000 such creatures, including grasshoppers, crickets, sow bugs, snails, toads, frogs, caterpillars, earthworms, salamanders, tiger beetles, click beetles, praying mantes, stink bugs...
...Last October the company withdrew from the retail gasoline business, sold its service stations. Marketing activities practically ceased, two refineries were shut down. Last week Simms Petroleum sought permission from its stockholders to sell its chief subsidiary and biggest asset, Simms Oil Co., owner of most of the parent concern's oil properties, to Tide Water Oil Co. for $8,775,000 and interest. That left Simms Petroleum with a few wells at Smackover, Ark., refineries at Smackover and Dallas, a few miles of pipe line. Last week President Edward T. Moore wrote his stockholders: "Your Board of Directors...