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...Capper is 60, slender, affects no polish of dress or manner, neither is he an aggressive type. He looks "like a country editor, grown into large estate"?and he is. He began life by learning typesetting on a small Kansas newspaper; he graduated into editorial work, became a reporter, city editor, Washington correspondent, publisher. He owns nine farm papers, with a combined weekly circulation of 1,500,000. He owns the Topeka Daily Capital, on which he began as a typesetter, besides another daily in Kansas City, a political weekly with a circulation of 600,000, and a "home...
...grown brothers took to scrapping a score or so years ago. They were quite alike, these two Kellogg boys, of Battle Creek, Mich.?both alert, energetic, farseeing, both good publicists. One, John Harvey?Dr. John Harvey? had recently invented his famed ready-cooked flaked cereals as a new form of food. Both knew the huge money possibilities of the new idea. But they differed inalterably on the disposition of earnings. John Harvey, a young doctor full of altruistic educational plans, considered the private accumulation of such gains unethical. Not so, Brother W. K. This one foresaw for himself independent...
...Have you grown-up sense enough to take special care of your teeth...
...smoke of candles is still blowing off birthday cake, the children are being taken home and Martin is spared the full knowledge of what he is growing up to. And grown-up Mr. Morley in his own wistful type of fantasy has played the theme of lost childhood...
...Wynken, Blynken and Nod and another lullaby, Little Boy Blue, were poetic masterpieces. And Eugene Field, the gaunt man who wrote them, put such a lyric fluency into whatever he wrote that he became known as "the children's laureate." He is best remembered as that today. No grown-up wishing to be popular with children allows himself to forget the words...