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Thus last week ended the most flamboyant newspaper circulation contest New York City has witnessed in recent years. But even before prize winners in the first contest were announced, the Post had already embarked on a second and bigger one with $25,000 in prizes; and the tabloids Mirror and Daily News had been drawn into the scramble with offers of $40,000 and $15,000 respectively...
...What They Are Saying" is the Mirror's contest, copied by permission from London Tit-Bits. A set of four action photographs is printed every day for 28 days. Object: to guess which of 48 suggested "sayings" best fits each picture. All readers of this gumchewers' sheetlet who can decipher English are expected to get the first two weeks' examples perfectly. Hence, the tabulating company retained by the Mirror does not even examine the entries until the final, difficult ones have been received. Then the tabulators begin searching for highest scores among the last returns, which narrow...
...Mirror's first prize is $5,000. Second prize, valued at $4,000, must be taken in the form of a bungalow at Lake Parsippany, N. J. The 500 lesser prizes likewise are in merchandise. Each puzzler is obliged to buy a 10? "color print of a popular movie star" with each week's answers. Estimated revenue: $35,000, which will just about cover the cost of the contest, exclusive of prizes...
...selves as John Cowper Powys. If it were not for the personal pronoun and the exclamation point he would be tongue-tied. A more unabashed egotist than most authors, he gave his ego a field day last week by publishing a grotesque 595-page autobiography. Whether or not the mirror he holds up to himself is distorted, most readers will agree that the image it reflects is a little cracked. Author Powys admits: "I know, and I daresay my reader will willingly bear me out in this, that I am - all the while - never wholly sane." He has tried...
Last fortnight the world's eyes were again on Geraldine Farrar. In Los Angeles an impoverished, cancer-ridden man who once had been her husband had gone into a bathroom, stood before a mirror and stabbed himself seven times with a pair of common sewing scissors. Reporters telephoned Miss Farrar at her Ridgefield, Conn. home, asked for comment on Lou Tellegen's death. Her reply was characteristically candid: "Why should that interest...