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FAMILY HISTORY-V. Sackville-West- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50) Aging ladies who pored over All Passion Spent as if it were a mirror will not find quite the same fascination in Family History. When her latest narrative goes so far as to make skeptical faces at Eton and at Eton's God, conservative readers will have to take comfort in remembering that Victoria Sackville-West's family have lived in 365-room Knole Castle since Queen Elizabeth's days that she is so aristocratic she can safely be allowed a certain latitude in criticizing home truths...
...California, near Mount Wilson's 100-incher. Two factors delay Caltech: 1) Dr. Elihu Thomson of General Electric does not yet see his way toward making the necessary fused quartz disk which will be nearly as wide as a two-story building is high; nor has any other mirror-builder come forward with a sound plan for building the vast platter; 2) Caltech must wait until the securities which it owns appreciate in income and market value before spending large sums...
...summoned to the War Department. He found Secretary Hurley, white-faced, "in a towering rage," pacing up and down his office. Said the Secretary: "This is a terrible thing you have done, Drew. You are trying to ruin my career. . . . Damnable lies. . . . You wrote that I posture before a mirror. Look around my office. There isn't a mirror in it.* You wrote that I used airplanes at Government expense to make political speeches and that I had smashed up a $70,000 plane. I'm going to put you in your place. I'm going to get your...
...charge of the Mirror as publisher was Max Annenberg, hardboiled oldtime circulation wrangler for both McCormick and Hearst in Chicago. With his son, Ivan, as circulation manager, he shouldered the Mirror's circulation from 50,000 up to an average of 110,000 daily, 150,000 Saturday, for the six months ending last March. A spring drive boosted the figure close to 200,000 in June, ahead of the Free Press, only other morning paper in Detroit. At the finish last week it was about...
Only last May the Mirror boasted a larger advertising gain for the month than any other U. S. daily. Its gain for the first half of this year, as compared to the same period last year was 608,325 lines. All other Detroit sheets had losses...