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By 1936 he was selling 35,000 copies a day, big delivery trucks were rolling in and out of the churchyard, and Allen Lane had become the most spectacular success in British publishing history. The price of Penguin books: 6d (12?) a copy; the profit on each: 1d.
Those who heard sputterings like this coming out of the radio one night last week chuckled because they were sitting at home, were perched before bars, or rolling along in their cars-and not among the fans who paid as much as $16.50 for a seat to watch a two...
Marrying the boss's daughter is something of a tradition in American Rolling Mill Co. Armco's founder and chairman, white-haired, patriarchal George Matthew Verity, married his boss's daughter; Armco's president, wiry, little Charles Ruffin Hook, married Leah Verity. And President Hook would...
Sharing the spotlight in the Harvard runaway were Captain Rusty Greenhood in the dive and Eric Cutler who copped first in the 220 and the 440. The Crimson leader turned in his best low-board performance of the year in rolling up 117.62 points.
Earlier in the week the Prime Minister had taken a severe tongue-lashing at the hands of shaggy-maned Liberal Lloyd George, Britain's Wartime Prime Minister. Supporting a Labor motion of "no confidence" in the Prime Minister, 75-year-old Lloyd George, one of the best showmen in...