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...Gossip Merger...
...seldom finds its way. That is just as well, for to the untutored mind its language is almost unintelligible. Yet for professional mummers and mimes Variety is almost as necessary as mascara. Every week actors, cinemactors, pitchmen, tent show performers depend upon its fat pages for information regarding bookings, gossip, scandal, news. To such folk, for instance, the headline NO JOINT. NO TAKE INDOOR CIRCUS NETS 20 G'S means that an indoor circus which operated without the use of shady concessions made a profit...
Broken by death and disgrace though the Ohio Gang is, memories of its high revels and rapacious graft from 1921 to 1923 still linger in the back eddies of Washington gossip. Never has the full story been told of the clique which came into power the day Warren Gamaliel...
...first only gossip, the deal seemed a certainty when Winthrop Williams Aldrich, president of Equitable Trust Co., was seen in the office of Albert Henry Wiggin, chairman of Chase National Bank, and when no denials were issued. A combination of these two banks would create an institution with resources of $2,728,800,000 exclusive of securities affiliates, making the new bank the biggest in the world. On Dec. 31 the ranking of large banks...
...became a feature of Wanamaker advertising, helped to make his signature one of the best-known in the U. S. (Quotations from the Founder are still featured in the Wanamaker newspaper ads.) Author Wanamaker was apothegmatic. Examples: "Let us do things-do things." "No man can make horseshoes with gossip." "Success is not a haphazard affair...