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15 picks · 1926–1930

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Lady Chesterfield
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Profile of Emily Post, authority on etiquette who says that etiquette was an accident in her life; needed money, and when asked to do an encyclopedia of …

They Were Eleven
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Helena Huntington Smith profiles Margaret Sanger, a pioneering advocate for access to birth control.

Crazy over Horses
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Profile of John D. Hertz and his wife, who have racing stable of thoroughbreds. His two-year old Anita Peabody wo won the Belmont Park Futurity in 1927, …

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Profile of Elinor Smith, who holds the women's altitude record and who, until a few weeks ago, held the women's solo endurance record, has never …

Ugly duckling
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Personality sketch of Albert Stoessel, musical conductor. Conducts the New York Oratorio Society and the Bach Cantata Club; in summer has Chautauqua …

Rampant but Respectable
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Lillian Wald was original founder of the Henry Street Settlement house. After graduating from New York Hospital training school for nurses was taking …

Beautiful But Not Dumb
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Adolphe Menjoy, movie actor. Played with Charlie Chaplin in 1923 in "A Woman of Paris." Son of French restaurant keeper in Cleveland. Mentions Lubitsch, …

Counsel for the Defense
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PROFILE of Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing. President of the League for the Abolition of Capital Punishment. Began as ordinary guard, arriving less that…

A Two-Ringling Circus
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Profile of John and Charles Ringling brothers. Barnum supreme in East-Ringling in West, in early days. Ringling bought Barnum in 1907 for $410,000. …

"Hausfrau Prima Donna"
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Profile of Ernestine Schumann-Heink, opera singer at 65. Has never had a press agent. Is past mistress of art of press agent hokum, herself. Fond of …