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...Work made its great scoop in 1907, when Publisher Frank Doubleday induced John Davison Rockefeller Sr. to write his reminiscences in a series of six articles. It scored again in 1914. When the War broke out in August, Editor Arthur Page stopped the presses printing the September issue, tore down the forms, whipped together a thoroughgoing picture of the entire international scene, published it as a War Manual. Circulation, which had been about 100,000, leaped to 300,000 with that issue, stayed about 180,000 throughout the War, has since dwindled to about 77,000. The most recent lapse...
...garden contest last year, and which they hoped would win a gold medal this year. Suddenly an automobile bounded from the road, crossed the curb, plunged into the garden, ripped through vines and hedges, plowed up flower beds, gouged an eight-foot gash in the side of the house, tore away the ivy that had been trained up the wall since 1914, uprooted a four-ton stepping stone, piled up against a maple tree. Out of the automobile, unhurt, stepped its driver, hulking Author Theodore Dreiser...
Wide awake were the Bavarian police. Loyal to Dr. Held they hurled themselves upon the Storm Troops, clubbed them with truncheons, tore off as many brown uniforms as they could, sent the Hitlerites scampering to cover in their underclothes...
...skipper, marooned in his pilot house, began to long to pray. The boat's tiny chapel was well aft, had to be reached across the open deck. Somehow the skipper made it, only to find the chapel empty of its gear. Desperate for something to pray to he tore a calendar off a locker wall, prayed to the figure printed on it. A few hours later the storm went down. Reporter Miller takes a look at the calendar, on the chapel's altar still-it is an ancient picture of Alfred Emanuel Smith...
When Prosecutor John C. Kelley read his next issue of TIME (May 9) he must there have found reported that Mrs Massie's fit of temper on the witness stand where she tore up evidence did the defense no good with the jury." Shame may have colored the prosecutor's neck but court observers thought they detected rage in his voice and manner...