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...staid columns of the Chicago Journal of Commerce last week appeared a matter-of-fact little item reporting the formation and election of officers of an organization called the Grand Knights of the Hose. Its status was apparently that of a fun division of the big, serious-minded National Association of Petroleum Retailers, trade body for the nation's filling stations. Spontaneously organized...
...Raye had arrived from Manhattan to do her act at the London Palladium. Though the average Briton did not know what "striptease" meant, he knew it was a Broadway specialty, suspected that therefore it was probably indecent. So much hubbub foamed up in London's press that the staid Palladium canceled the act and the more racy Victoria Palace grabbed...
...editorially revamped last October to reach a wider field, has increased its newsstand sales from 6,280 to 69,000 copies per month. Out for larger editorial bear, young Harlan Logan announced in Printers' Ink last week a stunt familiar to trade publications but radical for such a staid old publishing house as Charles Scribner's Sons. Beginning in June, Scribner's will deliver gratis for three months via Western Union 50,000 copies to 50,000 people with annual incomes of $7,500 or more. After the three months are up, Publisher Logan will try another...
During the wintry years of its northern Depression, Canada's financial centre of gravity shifted westward from the first city of the Dominion to the second, from staid old Montreal to booming Toronto. In mental atmosphere the two cities are different as Boston and Chicago. From the golden days of the fur trade to the building of the railroads, from the peopling of the prairies to the rise of lumber and newsprint, the wealth of Canada tended to flow through Montreal. Some of that wealth always came to rest in the snug little mansions at the foot of Mount...
...Going Down Sackville Street (the line is from a bawdy ballad) is not patterned in the ordinary, staid memoir manner. Not only by the title but by the book's motto ("We Irishmen are apt to think something and nothing are near neighbors") and the author's note ("The names in this book are real, the characters fictitious") readers are warned to hang on to their hats...