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With practically 100,000,000 life insurance policies in force in the U. S., Arthur C. Dollarhide, independent actuary, Cleveland, decided that the policy holders would want insurance instruction. So he wrote a book. (Facts and Fallacies of Life Insurance, $10) that purports "to so acquaint the reader with the principles of life insurance and various policy forms, their provisions and conditions, and desirability or lack of it, that he will be enabled to wisely choose the form of any new policy that he may purchase, effect such desirable readjustments of his present life insurance holdings as may be possible...
...writes a manuscript and another wants to read it, that should be a simple affair to arrange. Let Tom Writer take his script to Dick Reader, or send it by Harry Carrier. Difficulty will enter only when several thousand writers and several million readers mutually desire contact. Then Harry Carrier may not be the only one whose services are required...
...breakfast table of an apartment dweller seems scarcely more complex, costly and inevitable. Nevertheless, some businessmen have lately set out to simplify book-buying by having strong, swift Harry Carrier do more work than ever. They have him go almost directly from the house that Jack built to the reader...
...becoming a gazette of events--an admirable thing in itself but hardly as interesting as a more inclusive sheet. Undoubtedly the first function of a newspaper is, as the Yale paper says, "to purvey news." An almanac, however, performs the same duties but almanacs seldom hold the reader tense. "No more reforms" is a neat phrase; but heaven help an unformed formed Yale...
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