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...likely to sell. Preferred position is along the front of the stand, and lately the heavy-selling picture magazines have been crowding into those limited positions, upsetting some established applecarts and setting the nerves of most magazine circulation people on edge. When conditions are toughest, not the least uncommon trade practice of many magazines is to send representatives from stand to stand, shoving competitors' products aside, bringing their own magazines to the forefront. These tactics can drastically affect sales of magazines, but the newsstand operator, to whom one magazine sale means about as much as another...
...incalculable number of undergraduate hours are spent waiting for books," the article states. In a claim that three "chasers" are insufficient for ten floors of stacks, the Monthly alleged that 20 minute waits at the delivery desk are not uncommon...
...further instructions. The man-eating shark can often be seen following the wake of boats in southern waters in hopes of garbage, and whaling ships used to vary the monotony of long voyages by endeavoring to catch the huge fish. Man-eating sharks sixty feet in length not being uncommon, the whalers sometimes were forced to use, extra anchors as hooks. The cruelest method of catching of all is reported in the Edinburgh Observer...
Play Wizard Abbott has had uncommon success in the last few years pulling rabbits out of shabby theatrical hats and then turning them into ermine. Angel Island is the first produced playwriting attempt of Mrs. Howard Angus, wife of a Manhattan advertising executive. She is a frequent writer of magazine thrillers, but her chief avocation is etching, which she studied under Joseph Pennell. Mrs. Angus has called herself Bernie (short for Bernadine ) since she began to write for magazines. She believed editors were more receptive to male manuscripts. Satisfied with Angel Island, pleased that Hollywood...
When dealing with youthful breakers of minor laws, a not uncommon practice of pious U. S. judges and magistrates is to suspend punishment, put the culprit under the presumably healthful influence of the churches. Usually the results are not spectacular. Last week, however, in St. Petersburg, Fla., Magistrate John T. Fisher had cause to ponder the value of religion as a deterrent to misbehavior. Last August when A. K. Patterson, 20, was haled before Magistrate Fisher for speeding, the jurist sentenced the youth to attend Sunday School for 13 weeks. On 13 Mondays, Speeder Patterson repeated the text...