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...large group of Negro housewives canvassed in Birmingham, 74% had never heard of Fels-Naphtha soap. Half of those interviewed in Nashville never heard of Gold Medal flour; half in Atlanta knew nothing about Carter's underwear. Phoenix hosiery was unknown to 61% in Richmond...
...Harvard campus in March, 1923, a sawed-off youth wearing a monocle, top hat, morning coat, and sponge-bag trousers. He was temporarily put up at the Harvard Union in a bed in which President Roosevelt once had slept. Later he stopped for a time at the Phoenix Club. Specialists in the Prince's Harvard career say that he brushed aside the matter of entrance requirements by describing to President Lowell, in a personal interview, how his papers had been destroyed when the Rods burned the Winter Palace. Mike was enrolled as a student of engineering in the Graduate School...
Whisked away to the Royal Palace, happy Mr. Hsieh disappeared behind its frowning moat and was solemnly conducted to awesome Phoenix Hall. Being incombustible, or at least always able to rise from its own ashes, the mythical phoenix is the fiery symbol of Japan's sun-begotten reigning house. Last week when the Son of Heaven actually appeared, Hsieh Kai-shih seemed so flabbergasted by the honor done him that Japanese courtiers had to nudge him at the right moments as he made his speech of thanks for recognition of Manchukuo, then received the dazzling Order of Merit, Grand...
...Phoenix S. K. Club...
...omnibus collection of U. S. art. He had picked one picture by each of 49 living U. S. artists, two dead ones. The 1,300 eyed the 51. In August, Director Poland's collection will begin a long itinerary to Honolulu, Pasadena, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Phoenix, Denver, Omaha, Kansas City. Critics last week called it one of the shrewdest summaries yet made of contemporary U. S. art. Art in San Diego was in good hands last week...