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That is one way of rating John Milton ("100%") Nichols, president of Chicago's First National Bank of Englewood, and that was the way of one Lilian Cousins in a gushing article last year in the Carpentersville (Ill.) Fox Valley Mirror.* Another way appeared a few years ago in a banker- written letter to the American Banker: "Mr. Nichols isn't a banker and what he has in Englewood is not a bank. It is a cash register." Whatever John Milton Nichols may be, he has set something of a record for financial exhibitionism in the past three...
Author Williams is satisfactorily horrifying as the murderous bellhop, a creepy, insinuating, pinchbeck manic-depressive. Psychological shock-line comes when Danny is about to be led away in handcuffs. Appraising himself in the mirror, he observes: "This is the real thing...
...self-eulogy of Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden appeared in the New York Times & Herald Tribune and the Chicago Tribune last week. For many of the 130,000,000 U. S. citizens who do not read his Physical Culture, Liberty, True Story, True Romances, Love and Romance, True Experiences, Movie Mirror, Radio Mirror, Photoplay, True Detective Mysteries, Famous Detective Cases and Master Detective, the advertisement was the first occasion on which this wiry-haired, wrinkle-faced little character had made a major splash since Depression, during which he lost his wife through divorce and his tabloid newspaper. Nevertheless, as many...
...been the pioneer sex-confession magazine True Story, for which he claims the largest monthly newsstand circulation of any magazine on earth (total: 2,135,006), his detective magazines which feature pictures of real crooks and his "Women's Group" (True Romances, Love and Romance, True Experiences, Movie Mirror, Radio Mirror). So fat did the Macfadden fortune grow that in 1931 its proprietor was able to make the large but some-what vague gesture of organizing the charitable Bernarr Macfadden Foundation with the income from publishing properties which he described as "of the value of approximately...
...John D. M. Hamilton broken a record of some sort in having his picture took while admiring himself in a mirror (TIME, June...