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...would be utterly useless to recommend the enactment of a parietal rule abolishing electric razors. The lobby of Messrs. Shick, Remington, Rand, and Sunbeam et al, would forestall that measure. Nor is it possible to require suppressors on all razors, for such regimentation is obviously impossible. Better to suppress the shavers themselves. Careful consideration, however, leads but to one conclusion; owners of electric razors must to all costs read their daily radio programs with great care. Let them learn when Paderewski, Artie Shaw, Bob Benchley, Bea Wain, Information Please, and other necessities of life are due; ten let them...
...Sweringen, Richard Whitney, George H. Howard, et al., headed by the matchless act of J. P. Morgan & the Midget...
Before a Hollywood pressagent named Russell Birdwell published his first book, I Ring Doorbells, this week, he: 1) polled 2,500 newsmen to help pick its title; 2) wrote 175 department store buyers to watch for it; 3) offered book editors free j photographs of Carole Lombard, Janet Gaynor, et al., simpering: "This is the j most exciting book of the year," etc.; 4) offered radio stations two-minute transcriptions of the same stars making the same kind of remarks; 5) offered orchestras a specially written I Ring Doorbells song. Sample verse...
...Having lost $13,200,000 in the four previous years, the worried directors hired an ex-professor named James O. McKinsey to diagnose the case. Business Analyst McKinsey so impressed the directors that they soon made him chairman and absolute dictator of company policy (TIME, Oct. 21, 1935, et...
...world-weary alumni were sipping their cool mint juleps in the Stork Club the other day, trying to forget an earth where every conceivable mystery is suspected of undermining civilization, and is therefore being duly investigated by Dies et al. Suddenly they recognized the presence of a sordid and stark reality. In the conversation of two of the season's buds at the next table, they learned of an all-pervading influence of another color...