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...Author. Serious, conscientious Erich Maria Remarque worked hard on The Road Back, was dissatisfied with the ending and finally decided to change it, land on account of his lungs. Walter Winchell, Manhattan colyumist (Daily Mirror), did not improve his reputation for veracity when he helped circulate the rumor that Remarque's real name is Kramer (Remarque spelled backwards). Mobilized at 18, Remarque was repeatedly wounded on the Western Front. The War, which maimed his hand, put an end to his ambition to become a pianist. He does not regard himself as a literary man, says both his books...
...device consists essentially of a fast camera hidden behind a mirror. The mirror contains a hole. After the subject has leisurely arranged his pose, clothes and face the way he wants to have them (reflecting mirrors help him pose for profile and half-profile views) he presses an electric button. The front mirror drops; the hole flashes past the camera lens; the pose registers on the film. An attendant sends the films to New Haven for developing, retouching and printing on cabinet size pictures. Cost of one dozen PhotoReflex prints is considerably under standard studio rates. Greater...
...radio frequency currents (wired radio). General Squier's exhibit at Chicago was an unexpected non sequitur to his previous work. It was a woman's powder compact, rigged with a strap for wrist wear. A tiny handle pulled out a small drawer wherein reposed powder, puff and mirror...
...soon as they learned the outcome of the election, six London dailies telephoned across the ocean for interviews with Mayor-Elect Anton Joseph Cermak. Mirror, Mail, Express, Herald, Post, News in turn put nearly identical questions...
...terms of the sale were was not learned, but this much was known: The Detroit Daily, a tabloid resembling New York's Evening Graphic, was taken by Publishers Patterson & McCormick from Mr. Macfadden in the nature of a trade. Its name will be changed to the Detroit Daily Mirror. It will be edited by City Editor Frank Carson of the New York Daily News...