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...clothes, new hair, a glamorous makeup. Nurse Phillips gave Mademoiselle so much publicity that Betsy turned the stunt into a contest for ugly girls. From thousands of photographs of sad-eyed ducklings Betsy would choose one, send her home a cinema swan. Mademoiselle's circulation reached a peak of 178,057 in May 1939, began falling again...
...following 34 years Willie Hoppe walked 50,000 miles around billiard tables, played against Nicholas Longworth before President Taft, was the butt of quips by Humorist Samuel Clemens, saw Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, and other great sport figures pass their peak, fade out of competition...
...Britain, as in the U. S., the audience peak is at 8 p.m., with some 85% of listeners listening. In Britain, cradle of woman suffrage, father picks the programs most of the time...
...when the coming depression had undervalued them. In 1930-33, Odlum, with cash in hand, picked up control of enormous pools of capital by paying their hard-hit sponsors a few cents on their lately pyramided dollars. Out of Depression Atlas emerged as No. 1 U. S. investment trust (peak assets: $121,336,779 in 1933) and Odlum emerged as the U. S.'s newest tycoon, the only one extant who had done his pyramiding when other pyramids were crumbling...
...Angeles. He had thinking to do. Since end of 1929 U.S. investment trusts have suffered dollar & prestigewise (TIME, March 25). Atlas alone had conspicuously beaten the game. Its asset value per common share had risen from $5.06 to $12.80-153%. It had distributed nearly $60,000,000 of its peak assets, plus around $20,000,000 in dividends. What was left in the kitty was largely profit to Atlas' original security holders...