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...debt-ridden churches in his locality, a devout Methodist last week put forward a bit of oldtime religion. John O. Mullins, of Wesley, Iowa offered 100 bushels of seed corn free to farmers who would undertake to plant it on "God's acres," give the crop to God's uses. Worth $700, the seed corn would be distributed in 7-pound packages, each of which would plant one acre, produce 50 bushels-at 75? per bushel, a total of some...
...About Music (Universal). Greatest asset of deficit-ridden Universal Pictures Co. Inc. is wholesome, rich-voiced, 16-year-old Deanna Durbin. When her first featured picture, Three Smart Girls, was started in 1936, Universal, newly taken over from Carl Laemmle Sr. by a syndicate headed by Banker John Cheever Cowdin, was $1,835,419.07 in the red as of Oct. 30. Three Smart Girls cost about $300,000, has thus far grossed almost $2,000,000. Six months ago Deanna's second film, 100 Men and a Girl, was released and immediately justified the added expenditure allowed...
...John Harvey Kellogg is a healthy old man. For many years he has worked hard, ridden a bicycle for exercise, worn white clothes the year around "to let sun-light through," chewed each mouthful of vegetarian fodder 32 times. Editor of Good Health, author of Plain Facts (sex education via pictures of plant life), he is the inventor of flaked cereals manufactured by his brother, W. K. Kellogg. Dr. Kellogg once dictated (indoors) for 20 hours straight, dressed only in his summer underwear. Last week he celebrated his 86th birthday by stripping to a loin cloth, dictating (outdoors...
Last August Franklin Roosevelt plucked goggle-eyed Frank McNinch, one of the liveliest members of the Federal Power Commission, and made him chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. His job was to inject some New Deal vigor into the politics-ridden FCC. Last week the results became apparent...
Wright finished his work in 1920. He was in Los Angeles when the big quake hit Tokyo three years later. After ten days of anxious waiting, Wright learned by cable from his friend and client, Baron Okura, that the building had ridden out the quake unharmed while other modern buildings were shaking their masonry into the streets...