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...Mencken of the American Mercury sent congratulations, said Dr. Uhler was lucky to escape "servitude in such a hole." Said Dr. Uhler: "I realize that behind -my dismissal there are sinister and powerful influences, difficult to combat. ... I feel like one of the witches bound at the stake in Salem...
...home about to be broken up. Upon the complaint of neighbors, Mrs. Elizabeth Neth, assistant chief probation officer of the court of domestic relations, filed a petition to have Mrs. Fiena Hanna declared an imbecile and committed to the state institution for the feeble-minded at Salem, Ore. Bewildered, lacking legal counsel (which in Oregon is permitted but not customary in such cases), Mrs. Hanna was examined by a Dr. Max Himmelfarb and one Carolyn Friendly, mathematics teacher and one-time psychology student. These two announced that Mrs. Hanna failed to pass "intelligence tests." The court ordered her committed...
...appearing briefly on the stage of Manhattan's Paramount Theatre. Six weeks ago he closed his supper-club in the smart Delmonico Hotel. For last week alone, the royalties on his own song ''Wabash Moon" (which, until he recently adopted "Carolina Moon" because Camels are made in Winston-Salem, N. C., was the "signature" of his broadcasts) amounted to $1,600. It was consequently clear that Morton Downey had been the outstanding success of the radio season which, last week, had begun to draw in its antennae for the summer when static, storms and holidays make new attractions scarcer...
...returned to Manhattan after another London venture last autumn, Morton Downey owes his present affluence largely to Columbia's William S. Paley. Able Salesman Paley, eager to entice Camel advertising from the National Broadcasting Co., persuaded him to sing a sample program through a long-distance telephone to Winston-Salem, N. C., where it was relayed to Camel executives through a local station. It was an ideal episode for his recrudescent success story for Downey did his telephonic trial while his wife was undergoing a surgical operation...
...March 4 the Camel contest reached its "deadline." A deluge of 952,228 letters swamped the Winston-Salem postoffice, in which a special corner was roped off for Camel answers. About 20,000 answers arrived special delivery. The four special delivery messengers in Winston-Salem receive 9 cents for each special; the contest made them each almost $500 richer. In the Reynolds Building 122 employes on day and night shifts sorted and stapled the mail. Within a few days they stopped being surprised at such oddities as a letter in a crate so it would attract attention, letters in little...