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News readers have been treated to the spectacle of crack Republican and Democratic pressagents in-fighting as never before, exchanging curse for curse, sneer for sneer, puff for puff. After a week's trial Publisher Patterson offered his entertaining and educational innovation free to other newspapers through the Chicago Tribune-New York News-Syndicate. The 29 takers which he had last week did not include his syndicate partner in Chicago...
...contact that he has himself driven to work from his Wheaton estate in a coupe, in order to avoid having to offer a neighbor a lift. Yearly he entertains his employes in the Tribune Tower lobby. Remarked Cousin Joe Patterson at one of these affairs: "Bert certainly likes to crack the whip and watch the serfs march by." Under the Tribune masthead each day has appeared "The Tribune platform for 1936: Turn the Rascals Out." Last week the Tribune editorial columns were devoted to the thesis that Franklin Roosevelt deliberately planned and abetted the banking panic of 1933 in order...
...increasingly varied. A quantity of royal pots & pans, some from Buckingham Palace and others from His Majesty's suburban snuggery Fort Belvedere, were turned over to her, together with a royal housekeeper named Mrs. Mason. Also transferred to the King's favorite were the King's crack chauffeur, George Ladbrooke, complete with a discreet black Canadian Buick sedan and the King's personal bodyguard of many years, 200 lb. Chief Inspector David Storier of Scotland Yard...
...Leopold Thoma. a rugged and persevering psychologist of the University of Vienna, has for some 30 years been exploring the therapeutic uses of hypnosis on stammering, neuroses, childbirth pain. He holds the record for mass hypnosis, having once entranced 180 people at a crack. Reflecting that the nature of hypnosis is not well understood. Dr. Thoma some years ago decided to see what he could learn by applying hypnotic technique to highly intelligent animals. He chose the chimpanzee...
...efficient chapters, with a minimum of glowing reminiscence, a maximum of good hunting sense. Bob Vale has shot wild guinea fowl in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and told a bear to go scat on a Pennsylvania trout stream, but he also rephrases homely old rules like "At partridge, always crack fast"; "At rabbits, shoot low-and watch out for tularemia"; "At quail, wait, then shoot...