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...Rapped on the galvanized iron side of an unemployed workers' school hut and drew a laugh by asking the men with the mock roar of an Army sergeant, "ANY COMPLAINTS...
...General had a ready explanation. He and Mrs. Taylor had planned to marry shortly, he said, but her two young daughters objected. Because of that, he believed, she had killed herself. Early last week a coroner and a police sergeant went to General Denhardt's farm to make a paraffin test of his hands* which would determine whether he had lately fired...
...habits of gangsters and the weakness of law enforcement, retells the stories of the Factor, Bremer, Urschel and Robinson kidnappings, the deaths of Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger. Best parts of American Agent are its thumbnail biographies of public enemies: Verne Miller, migratory worker, parachute jumper, sergeant in the U. S. Army, who became a sheriff before he became a gangster, then posed as a wealthy oilman and joined exclusive clubs; George Ziegler, landscape engineer, University of Illinois football star, Army flyer, crack golfer and gentle, well-mannered assassin...
...hospitalized behind the lines after the Argonne offensive with a hole in his neck and a piece of shrapnel in his lung, Sergeant DeWitt Wallace of the 35th U. S.. Infantry perfected his plans for a magazine of condensed reprints culled from all the publications on the market. The tremendous success of this notion of a wounded soldier in 1918 was made manifest this week by a unique and thoroughgoing account of Reader's Digest published in FORTUNE...
...until 1921, when Westinghouse let onetime Sergeant Wallace out of a press agent's job, did he have an actual chance to get into the business of reselling U. S. magazine material condensed to about a quarter of its original length. First office of Reader's Digest was in Manhattan's arty Minetta Lane. First staff consisted of Publisher Wallace and his wife. Their magazine promptly prospered beyond the Wallaces' wildest hopes, moved in 1923 to suburban Pleasantville, N. Y., flourished further, and last year grossed $2,178,000. Published in FORTUNE for the first time...