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...having trouble to get my TIME, an old reader of six years or more. I am enclosing the address of the newsdealer on Potsdamer Platz who was skinning me alive with a charge of Reichsmark .90 a copy. Can't you make it hot for that guy, or is he immune with such robbery...
...launched as a 10? bimonthly. If successful, it will supplement Dell's lucrative Modern Screen, Radio Stars and Ballyhoo. Editor West F. Peterson, out of Illinois via the University of Wisconsin and its Daily Cardinal, ordered a press run of 400,000 for Foto's, first appearance. Readers got 66 pages in rotogravure of photographs intended to raise the reader's hair, hackles or eyebrows. Most appalling shot: the corpse of a New York sneak-thief who garroted himself when he stumbled and was caught by the neck in a trap door...
...article described the efforts of the Department of Agriculture to detect the adulteration of olive oil with tea seed oil. It described the operation of the so-called Fitelson test. The serious vice of this article is that it is so constructed as to lead the average reader to conclude that measured by this test our client's product was not pure olive...
Around this simple human situation Author Maxwell has written his second novel, a story of such engaging warmth that it would thaw the heart of any critic, will melt many a common reader to tears...
That the Spanish fleet which holed up in Santiago harbor was no match for the U. S. fleet, is no discredit to the bravery of Lieutenant Hobson, whose attempt to cork the harbor entrance was nevertheless a fiasco. But Reader Dohrman does not know much about his friend's era if he is not aware that two fleets were never more unevenly matched than the Spanish and U. S. at Santiago on July 3, 1898. Admiral Cervera's fleet consisted of four cruisers, three torpedo boats. One cruiser, the Cristóbal Colón, was minus...