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Born year and a half ago in the Manhattan hardware store of British-born William George Lemmon, where the household help of rich metropolitan families buy supplies and exchange gossip, Staff has grown from a leaflet to a 24-page illustrated monthly magazine. It reaches the pantries of 5,000 big U. S. homes...
Rural journalism began as a sideline for job printers. Its editorial basis was local gossip; its financial foundation was patent medicines-Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Sloan's Liniment, Beecham's Pills, Carter's Little Liver Pills, which were among the first national advertisers. Today there are 11,852 country papers, nearly half of them more than 50 years old, 151 more than 100 years...
...against this 14-year-old cease-&-desist. By this time the handwriting was clearly on the wall. All that was needed to make Big Steel jump again was the creation of President Roosevelt's Monopoly Investigation. Its first meeting was scheduled for last week and it was common gossip that U. S. Steel Corp. was No. 1 on its agenda...
...church door Groom Johnny hailed his car like an old-timer (see cut). The guests trooped after, to the Nahant Tennis Club. They consumed 500 bottles of imported champagne, and food which Secret Service in the kitchen had made sure was not poisoned. A popular morsel of their gossip was about Mrs. Franklin Jr. (Ethel du Pont) who is expecting a baby...
...George Bye, a professional at handling writers, fell the job of actually getting out the Nutmeg. First issue revealed that the Nutmeg will be highly departmentalized. Columnist Broun will write Nature Notes. Stanley High's Americana starts off as a gossip column. Ursula Parrott's column. This and That, suggests baked grapefruit as a change from soup and shellfish cocktails. John Erskine's regular department will be Men's Furnishings ("The belt question grows acute. . . ."), but for the first issue Mr. Erskine also contributes an editorial on relief and a timely piece on "A Central School...