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...October meeting of AP's solemn board Publisher Knox will learn whether he can vent his personal ire without challenge from AP. That he cannot was indicated last week when AP, clucking proudly, asserted in trade paper advertisements that Preston Grover's daily stint is ''A credit to American journalism . . . logotype or no logotype...
Last week on the South Side, now a congested mill district, for the 88th time solemn high mass was celebrated in St. Michael's for hundreds of Catholics, some of them sons and grandsons of those delivered from the plague, some of them old parishioners who traveled hundreds of miles for the event. All were permitted to kiss the church's prized reliquary containing a bit of one of St. Roch's bones...
Pure Oil Co.'s president since 1924 has been Henry May Dawes, solemn brother of Charles and Rufus, and its chairman is genial, stout Brother Beman. Least known of the Dawes boys, Beman is a great vacationist in Florida and Canada, leaves active direction of the company to hardworking Brother Henry. At his desk on the 22nd floor of Chicago's Pure Oil building every morning promptly at nine, President Dawes rarely gets away for golf except on weekends. An amateur of Civil War history and photography, he is a great friend of Cartoonist John McCutcheon and Illinois...
Most bumptious reaction came from the American Booksellers Association, still glowing from Doubleday, Doran's triumph over Macy's in the court battle on New York's Fair Trade Act (TIME. March 22). In solemn glee A. B. A.'s Counsel Crichton Clarke called a stenographer, dictated a statement pointing out that no stores in Macy's own trading area would be favored with the new service. "Macy's does not care how much its private brands are cut in other markets," said Mr. Clarke, "but it will not permit them...
...everything breathes and moves, lives and acts. Sample: "Flights of dead leaves were swept off by the rain. The woods were being stripped bare. Huge water-polished oaks emerged from the downpour with their gigantic black hands clenched in the rain. The muffled breath of the larch forests; the solemn chant of the fir-groves, whose dark corridors were stirred by the slightest wind; the hiccup of new springs gushing out amidst the pastures; the brooks licking the weeds with their greedy lapping tongues; the creaking of sick trees already bare and slowly cracking in two ; the hollow rumbling...