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...clubhouse stands but Penrod's father buys it back again. The clubhouse is a cozy shanty, ornamented outside by a piece of tin, a portion of rubber-hose, furnished inside with barrels of paint, old packing boxes, a tin-gavel and a periscope made out of a broken mirror. Most enthusiastic members are two small blackamoors, Herman Washington (James Robinson) and Verman Washington (Robert Dandridge), who are so young & ignorant that they are unable to read the club regulations...
...that remains in the field. The biggest store chains were already claimed, so Futura has brought together six of the smaller ones.† totalling 1,345 stores, has persuaded them to distribute Futura magazines for 10?. Result: on 1,345 counters this week appeared 500,000 copies of Love Mirror ("Greatest 10 Cent Fiction Magazine") and Movie Mirror ("Filmland's Most Beautiful Magazine...
...these days to simulate actual news photographs. The energy of news photographers and the license taken by tabloid editors make such devices unnecessary. When the trussed and battered body of Benjamin P. Collings was washed ashore on the sands of Long Island last week (see p. 17). News and Mirror obliged by printing large, close-up pictures of the muddy corpse as it lay on the beach. That put them one jump ahead of the Evening Graphic, but not for long. That afternoon the Graphic blossomed with a full front-page photograph of the corpse on a morgue slab, posed...
...flashed his warm Irish smile and replied: "Mr. President, I'd crawl on my hands and knees to get that office." When the Hurleys arrived in Washington they were so overawed by the capital's society that they used to practice their entrances and exits at a mirror before dining...
Editor Walker is married, has one daughter, is expecting another child. First to break the news publicly was, of course, gabby Colyumist Walter Winchell of the Mirror. Editor Walker read the squib, remarked: "Well, I guess this is all right? as long as I get a by-line...