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Publisher Block is a specialist in friendship. The word itself, with all its synonyms, affects him strongly. "Friendship" is the name of his estate, and next month, when he boards his new private car (the first he has owned) for a vacation in Maine, he will find "Friendship" lettered on its sides. Almost, friendship is a secondary business with Publisher Block. On his office desk lies a small brown leather book, stencilled "A Deed a Day." Here his secretary eagerly inscribes the Block benefactions: $5,000 to Commander Byrd, $10,000 for a new cathedral, $500 for the widow...
...beauty seekers paid between $400,000,000 and $500,000,000 to cosmetics makers, who had already devoted $40,000,000 to advertising. At times, the advertising pages of such magazines as the Cosmopolitan (Hearst) seem almost exclusively devoted to cosmetics. Every small town has its beauty specialist, its "parlors," where creams and lotions, pastes, lipsticks, rouges, powders are on sale. As an industry, cosmetics making has all the modern paraphernalia. It has its trade papers (Toilet Requisites, Toilet Goods Economist), its federal supervision (no health-destroying chemicals), its radio programs (Gimbel Bros. Station WGBS...
...just and equitable practices of trade," Edwin H. Stern, partner in the brokerage firm of E. H. Stern & Co., was expelled from membership in the New York Stock Exchange, last week. He had made a personal profit of $1,000 in a complicated floor deal, while acting as a specialist in Manhattan Shirt stock. In 1910, Mr. Stern paid some $75,000 for his Stock Exchange seat. Now, when his seat is sold, he will receive a sum in the neighborhood...
...wounded men, only two died last week, of whom one was Paul Raditch. The great Stefan Raditch lay in hospital, visited twice daily by King Alexander, and from Vienna flew famed Diabetic Specialist Dr. Gustav Singer-for Croat Raditch suffers from diabetes and a bullet in the stomach is poor medicine. After a thorough examination, Dr. Gustav Singer said that the patient might survive...
Died. Dr. Herbert Steuer, 35, X-ray specialist; by electric shock from his X-ray machine, while making an examination; in Cleveland. Four doctors, including George W. Crile, worked unsuccessfully with ten tanks of oxygen trying to resuscitate...