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...music-hall singer, customer's man, drama student at Columbia, musicomedy actor. Although he has dropped his last name, he is proud of the supposition that he had pedagogical progenitors, of the fact that his great-grandfather and two great-granduncles founded Goucher College (for women) in Baltimore. Fond of corned-beef, cabbage, good beer and other Irish luxuries, Funnyman Dowling says he would like to be an official in an orphanage so that he could amuse the inmates. He was appalled last spring (TIME, March 9) when National Diversified Co., which financed two of his pictures, was shown...
...Nairn of Scotland whose family had been making linoleum since 1847. In 1924, whipped, Congoleum was glad to become Congoleum-Nairn, Inc. Its chairman is now Alfred William Erickson, although his chief interest is the advertising firm of McCann-Erickson. Inc. Vice Chairman is Baronet Nairn, jovial, bushy-mustached, fond of sports. With hat turned far down in front he drives to sporting events in a strange motor wagonette, scrambles onto its roof for a good view. He likes to go through factories notebook in hand. Congoleum-Nairn is thought of as a Morgan company in Wall Street...
...people, mindful also of the Kansas City Star's reputation for crusading which was built up by its late great founder William Rockhill Nelson, the Star's present publisher George Baker Longan has made a big issue out of the controversy. Quiet and magnetic, Publisher Longan is fond of history, art and the cattle and horses raised on his model farm in Jackson County, Kans., where he buys gas from the Cities Service system. Strong-minded to the point of eccentricity (he will not permit the word "snake,'' or snake pictures, in his newspapers), having decided to fight Cities Service...
Last week Superintendent Saunders re- plied to his critics. He had not made out the examination: it had been prepared by a board of teachers and proctors. "I am fond of New Jersey," he said. "I am for this State first." But he believed that the normal schools put too much emphasis on teaching methods and modern psychology, not enough on "fundamentals." Many an observer, glancing at the questions, agreed that all might easily be solved by any clear-thinking secondary school pupil who knew his fundamentals. But the teachers' committee of the Irvington Board of Education felt that...
...advantages of advertising during Depression, the relative merits of newspapers, radio, and cinema as mediums, government-control of industry, and the advantages of college training were other topics elaborated. Professionally fond of catch-lines, the advertising men felt like applauding the following...