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...them more information. Still curious, O'Brien decided to have the Hoover past researched and publish a book thereon. He employed Hamill to travel abroad, gather material. As Hamill was completing this assignment, a quarrel with O'Brien developed. Hamill took his manuscript to a notorious Samuel Roth who, under the name of William Faro Inc., specialized in smutty publications. Last September William Faro Inc. issued a thick blue volume entitled "The Strange Career of Mr. Hoover Under Two Flags" by John Hamill ($3.75). In three months the book has sold far & wide, caused much undercover comment, more...
...Night, when spectators wore pink or green coats to watch the judging of hunter classes. There were 30 fewer classes than last year, but most of the best U. S. show horses?with a few notable exceptions, like William DuPont's grey hunters Quarryman and Quarrymaster, Mrs. William P. Roth's five-gaited saddler, Chief of Longview?were entered. Young horses, such as Mountain Pippin, a three-gaited saddle horse owned by Jane's Place; Lieutenant W. M. Cleland's six-year-old Irish hunter Margot; H. Hollon Crowell's hunter Sir Conrad?won more than their usual share...
...Author. Joseph Roth's father was an Austrian, his mother a Russian Jewess. Because of what he now thinks "a ridiculous ambition" to better himself socially, Joseph went to the University of Vienna, left it after two years to go to War. His knowledge of Russian helped him to become an officer, a position he liked so much he decided to stay one. Revolution in Austria made him change his mind: he was glad to pick up odd jobs. Newspaper work for the Frankfurter Zeitung gave him leisure to write books. He has written eight: Job is his first bestseller...
...took his plan to William Randolph Hearst Jr. who donated free office space in the old Mirror building and underwrote the printing bill for the first issue. His sponsorship was tentative, conditional upon the tone of the first issue, viz: he would countenance no panhandling. Editor is Edward A. Roth, whose 43 years service on the World terminated when Scripps-Howard bought that paper. News editor is Jack Hyatt, longtime Hearstling. Thirty other ex-newsmen worked on the first issue. If 6,000 copies of the edition of 10,000 are sold at 25?, Manager Klein declares there will...
...James Drummond Dole's Hawaiian pineapples direct to destination at $10 a ton, $3.95 less than the route via San Francisco. Since Dole pineapples fill 5,000.000 cases a year (125,000 short tons), 33% of the Island's total, other steamshipmen protested, wished Godspeed to President William P. Roth of Matson Navigation Co. when he set out for Manhattan to chide Mr. Farrell...