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Doubleday, Doran, in size ranking second only to Macmillan Co. in the U. S. (In 1929 Macmillan published 736 titles, Doubleday, Doran, 488, all others less.) Dynamic chief executive of this concern is Nelson Doubleday, tall, handsome, smart son of the Founder. His first fame resulted from selling 2,000,000 copies of the Book of Etiquette by mail...
Simon & Schuster, spectacular young concern (Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster) who gave to the U. S. crossword puzzles, Trader Horn, Story of Philosophy, Joan Lowell. This firm is unique for its high average sale of its comparatively few books...
Greatest triumph of Mark Twain's Jim Smiley was the training of a broad jumping frog on which he won many a bet. Chief concern of the story is about a bet Smiley made with a stranger that his frog, "Dan'l Webster," could jump farther than any frog in the country. The frogs were lined up. The stranger's animal gave an ineffectual leap, went a few feet. Came Dan'l's turn to jump. He would not budge. Said Mark Twain...
Although the pseudo-modern reader may shudder to find again in print the picture of the mother of the Gracchi surrounded by her natural jewels, may be amused by the idea that the younger generation is any longer a practical object for the world's concern, Mr. Macy will find few male enemies by his treatment of woman as trouble and mischief-maker. Quoting, and later characterizing as "smart-aleck," Max Beerbohm's description of the militant suffragettes as the "army of the unenjoyed," he finds behind the W. C. T. U. and similar organizations the unconscious desire to ruin...
Vacuum Oil Co. began as a manufacturer of harness oil, changed to machine lubricants; famed Brewster Body Co. made carriages; the Studebakers, wagons. By their adaptability, these companies survived. Because of reluctance to change, J. B. Sickles Co., oldest business concern in St. Louis, last week prepared to close its books and pass on to corporate ghost-land...