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Scripps-Howard's parent company entered Memphis 30 years ago with the Press. In 1926, the Press swallowed the News-Scimitar. Same year the powerful old morning Commercial Appeal aimed an Evening Appeal at the Press-Scimitar. Just before the Evening Appeal appeared, Editor & Publisher Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney suddenly died. Because Mr. Mooney had been a great & able editor, the Appeal papers languished without him. Promoters Luke Lea and Rogers ("We Bank on the South") Caldwell acquired the papers in 1927, milked them of cash, lost them to receivers when the Lea-Caldwell empire collapsed...
...English Literature" and the "Cambridge Histories" hold positions of unique importance throughout British scholastic circles and Yale has ably followed their lead with the "Chronicles of America" and "Series of Younger Pocts". Such work on the part of a University press adds immeasurably to the prestige of the parent body and stimulates interest both in the college and elsewhere...
...Since 1929 Atlas has bought 22 investment trusts, sold two. Last week President Odlum announced the last step in a corporate simplification program which will leave Atlas a single $110,000,000 unit. To be consolidated with the parent company are the three remaining subsidiary trusts, Shenandoah Corp., Sterling Securities Corp. and Pacific Eastern Corp., once called Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. At the same time two outside directors will be taken on the Atlas board, Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s Robert E. Wood and United Fruit Co.'s Samuel Zemurray, for other news of whom...
Publisher Hecht explained it all to his own satisfaction, gave his editorial formula: "The field of child study, parent education and better homemaking . . . deals with all that is most fundamental in life-with the home, with the love of parents and children, the relation of husbands and wives, with all that makes for security and joy in living...
...herself haled into court to explain why she had never sent her two daughters to school. Daughters Victoria, now 14, and Mary Belle II, 16, their mother then explained, had been brought up without suppressions or inhibitions; they threw their Christmas tree out the window without a word of parental rebuke; they learned life from the transcripts of testimony in Chicago criminal courts; they won beauty contests, rode like Amazons, behaved as they pleased. Since then the Misses Spencer, whose news value is not lessened by the fact that they are two of Chicago's comeliest young girls, have...