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...source of alarm to publishers who wondered if its checks made up for its bang-up competition for readers' attention. So Edi tor Wallace quietly began to publish original articles, now pays $500 to $1,000 for such material. Most famed Reader's Digest original was " -and Sudden Death," by Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, which ap peared in August 1935, dramatized the slaughter of automobile casualties, was quoted far & wide, fathered many a horror-struck accident report in the Press...
Riding into Topeka, Alf Landon reclined in the bedroom of his private car as newshawks came in to interview him. He shoved at them a telegram from Republican Chairman Hamilton. It announced that arrangements had been made for him to speak in Los Angeles this week. Startled at this sudden change of plans, wondering if it was caused by new hope of California since Dr. Townsend advised his followers in California to vote for Landon (TIME, Oct. 19), newshawks asked why he was going...
...Charles E. Coughlin was addressing a state rally of his National Union for Social Justice at Detroit's Fair Grounds. One listener not a member of the National Union was Frank ("Woody") Hockaday, onetime Wichita, Kans. automobile accessories dealer, now chiefly interested in promoting peace by means of sudden dramatic appearances with a bag of feathers. This punchinello of the 1936 political campaign first received public notice and fell into the hands of the police in June when, attired in red shorts and an Indian war bonnet, he strewed his feathers all over Philadelphia's Broad Street...
...Capri, there to write a book about mathematics, but tied up in some symbolical way with paper dolls. The reason why the couple feel so jubilantly footloose is that they have married off two of their daughters, and are about to place the third. But the reversal is sudden and through: two of the daughters come stalking home, and the third one quarrels with her beau...
Long years of experience have taught this denisenry that sudden death results from capture within the confines of Soldiers Field. But no fence however constructed could keep them off the enclosed area across North Harvard Street, while a large corps of managers, maintenance men, etc, would be necessary to chase them away as often as they appeared...