CORONET
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Issue Date: May, 1948; VOL. 24. No.1. WHOLE No. 139
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COVER: Spring Fever ... WESLEY SNYDER.
ARTICLES:
INSIDE front cover: "An Illustrated proverb suitable for framing". From Henry Timrod. [Full page photo by William Eymann.]
Broadway's Strangest Story ... MAURICE ZOLOTOW.
Go Ahead: Take a Chance! ... DR. HENRY C. LINK.
College Is Different at SARAH LAWRENCE ... MARTIN ABRAMSON. Innovations are a campus tradition.
Meet the Century's Million-Dollar Babies ... MICHAEL EVANS. The Gold Dust Twins: TOMMY O'GRADY and TOMMY WALSH.
Needed: Boys Towns for the World ... FATHER FLANAGAN.
Waxie Gordon and the Boy Prosecutor ... ELMER L. IREY & WILLLIAM J. SLOCUM.
The Big Boom in Baby Foods ... JEAN LIBMAN BLOCK. About the origins of Clapp and Gerber foods.
Operation Screwball ... VESTEL LOTT. Members of the Bonehead club meet in Dallas.
The World's First Painless Dentist ... THOMAS CONWAY. HORACE WELLS found a magic drug to ease pain, but he died a failure. (He found Nitrous-Oxide, or Laughing Gas).
Indiana's Lady Bluebeard ... CAROL LYNN GILMER. Here is the grim tale of Belle Sorenson.
New York City's Bellevue: Hospital with a Heart ... HENRY LEE.
Mystery of the Quivering Wall ... WAVERLEY ROOT.
The Railroad That Runs on Faith ... HAL BURTON. The vital little Rutland line is still serving the state of Vermont.
AL JOLSON: America's Minstrel Man ... CAMERON SHIPP. One of Radio's 'newest' stars is working harder and earning more than ever before in his 50 year career on the stage.
Watchdogs of the Striped-Pants Set ... PAUL F. HEALY. America's Protocol officers.
Look Out for the Foreign Relief Racket ... FRANK W. BROOK.
JAMES MACNEIL WHISTLER: Art's Lonely Butterfly ... WEBB B. GARRISON. A tempermental genius who won world-wide acclaim, but in death he was virtually friendless and unmourned.
New England's Trillion-Dollar Mile ... DAVID O. WOODBURY. Research Row, in Boston.
I Keep Business on Its Toes ... HELEN COLTON.
I Blame Divorce ... As told to JEANNETTE EYERLY.
Why Stamp Collectors Seldom Go Broke ... ROBERT W. MARKS.
Paradise on a Platter ... DUNCAN HINES.
The Eternal Servant ... WALT ANDERSON. This is the story of CHEESO, a little man with a great heart.
The Miracle That Grew in Brooklyn ... EMILY LAWRENCE.
Why Insurance Chiselers Can't Win ... CAROLINE BIRD.
"Morning, Mr. Pop" ... TIM TAYLOR. 77 year old Hyman Kullick distributes lollipos at Bellevue Hospital.
Hero Forged in Fire ... WILLIAM KEY.
PICTORIAL FEATURES:
KING COTTON, 11 Illustrations especially for CORONET by JIM LOCKHART. [ALL in color, with captions telling the COTTON story!]
THE AMERICAN WOMAN. [16 beautiful pages of photos of our American women!]
"An Illustrated proverb suitable for framing". From Henry Ford. Full page Illustration by Aldren Auld Watson.
DYNAMIC DETROIT. [EIGHT full pages of COLOR photos and captions profiling the city of DETROIT]
THE MIRACLE OF SPRING. [10 pages of Beautiful artistic photographs from famous photographers, with short essays!]
The Triumph of the Bells ... REV. PHILIP J CLEVELAND. Illustrated by Al Bagrielle.
SPECIAL FEATURE: The Decline and Fall of the U. S. A. ... JOSEPH & STEWART ALSOP.
DEPARTMENTS:
Tough on Any Postman ... A CORONET QUICK QUIZ.
Unfurled from the Show World.
Opportunities Unlimited ... A CORONET QUICK QUIZ.
You're the Editor ... A CORONET QUICK QUIZ.
Our Human Comedy.
Publisher: DAVID A. SMART. Editor in Chief: OSCAR DYSTEL.
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