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...luncheon given by Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail for "200 Britons Who Have Achieved Fame While They Were Young." Against doctors' orders Commander Amy sat in the place of honor, nibbling dry toast. Publisher Rothermere's son, Hon. Edmond Cecil Harmsworth, handed her a contract for all her writings, a check for $50,000. Besides Riflewoman Marjorie Foster, other heroines present included Miss Winifred Brown, aviatrix who won the King's Cup for a race round England (TIME, June 14); Ivy Hawke, Channel swimmer; Diana Fishwick, golf champion; Joan Manning Saunders, exhibitor at the Royal Academy...
...boast that in his 14 years on the Journal he made more than $3,000,000 profit for the paper in theatrical advertising; that he was responsible for the $5,000,000 contract between Hearst and Famous Players; for the $2,000,000 contract between Hearst's newsreel and Universal Film Corp.; for various successes of Hearst's Cinemactress Marion Davies. He left the Journal to start Zit's Weekly in 1921, with the gratitude of Publisher Hearst who continued to pay him $1,000 a week until two years...
Last month he said if ever he married he would draw up this contract: "I hereby promise to do my damndest. You are hereby notified that I expect you to be polite...
...time Johnny made possible the Onion River drive. There the wild onions were so big and strong that the loggers were blinded with tears in the woods and could scarcely work at all. Johnny Inkslinger simply discovered that Italy's garlic crop had failed that year, made a contract with the Italian Government, which sent over shiploads of laborers and paid Paul Bunyan a handsome profit in addition to making the Onion River district loggable for him. Bunyan, Inkslinger and their deeds were times and times ago, of course, and Real America-the whole world, in fact...
...family direction, has tried to buy first the Washington Post, then the Herald. She also offered to lease the Herald. In last week's announcement of her new connection, the Herald said: "Hearst papers are not for sale. . . . Mrs. Patterson will work . . . under the regular Hearst newspaper contract...