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...publishing world long had known that Liberty's advertising was being ridden to death by hard-boiled General Manager Max Annenberg, concerning whose acquaintance with Chicago's famed Scarface Al Capone an interesting testimonial was published last week in Big Bill Thompson's "The Tribune Shadow" (see p. 15). Annenberg once promised a 250,000 circulation growth at no increased page-rate and got thereby many an advertiser. Forthwith he cut Liberty's page-size, lost in goodwill what he had made in profit. James O'Shaughnessy, expert on advertising, was called in (TIME, July...
...York, N.Y., April 2--A fast-riding Yale polo team overwhelmed the Harvard trio by a score of 10 to 7 here tonight at the Squadron A armory in spite of the Crimson's six-goal handicap lead. So closely were the Harvard malletmen ridden that only twice could they get free to score goals...
...hands all blood staggering into a tavern where people were dancing to a tone-sick piano, Wozzeck going back for the knife, then wading into the water to wash him self, deeper, deeper until he drowned ? for these scenes and for an earlier one, in which the conscience-ridden Marie reads passages on adultery from the New Testa ment, Composer Berg has written music which critics unanimously pronounce the most powerful in any opera for years. Like his leading character it is neither lofty nor noble but it effectively describes Wozzeck, like the Wozzeck in Georg Buchner's play...
...Fingering the ribbon of his glasses with an air of abstraction, he heard Mr. Capone's young doctor and nurses testify that, down with pleurisy, he had been in grave condition during February and March 1929. Then Judge Wilkerson listened to other witnesses who related how the supposedly bed-ridden gangster had taken an airplane ride to Bimini (bootleg base), a boat trip to Nassau, attended the Sharkey-Stribling fight in Miami, the Hialeah races. "It is evident," commented Judge Wilkerson, "that someone is lying...
Janet might have taken her pick among several nice Englishmen, but instead she married Carl Fischer, an expatriate in London who preferred loneliness in England to Junker-ridden Germany. They were very happy; when their son John was born, their cup brimmed. In the summer of 1914 the Fischers were planning a holiday in the Harz Mountains. Then John sprained his ankle, had to stay at home. When the War started Carl & Janet were in Germany. On the train to Holland Carl's half-forgotten patriotism gave him dreadful qualms; just before they reached the frontier he gave himself...