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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 19 May 1938, p. 52

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MATTRESSES-1 IRmode e law.s $3.95 I Mlteast'$7.93 011T":Af#ftu *1 ot cotlitiuouU pubucauon i inemn cyclopedia.. A dinner given deety ini New Yorkc in Mr. Hëoopr's bonor also tnarked the appointment of bhis'- auccessor. The company bas two otber executives liv- ing in Winnetka, the president, E. H. Powell of 434 Williow road, and the. general sales manager, .' Howard B.' Housman of 1195 Hamfptondale road,' botb of who attended the diiner bonôr- ing the retiring editor. Before becoming associated with tbe Encyclopedia Brittanica in 1930, Mr. Yust bad: been in newspaper, work for seventeen years, in Mempbis, New Or- leans,. New York, and -Pbiladelpbia, where beh was literary editor of the Publici Ledger.. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. Do you know u inAmerica cb electricity ly? That ini- sA h;rfh. ; The» iew editor of, the lineycIo- pedia Brittanica is Walter Yust, 759. Prospect avenue, Winnetka, former associate' editor of the pu'- liioe. Mr. Ywt ust jwedt IFrank- lint H. Hooper of Moittclair, N. J. Tae US' Part Truth, Part Fcfion Y, the grey mare who with son is the title character in iraeff's newly4issued story of trotting borses, is a pure in- d . theauho ' sofair asthe more newspaper wonian to givete world an accou.nt,,of ber life. And rigbt .tbere she's, smart,. f ar ber own career movesat: a faster pace than ninety per cent of the plots inimodemn fiction.. Some few people like :Orson Welles, the actorý and producer,. ad Irene Kubn, are bornl. vth precocity and adventure, in, their very marrow. At 16 the authoress left school becausé she 'wanted a business career, andat 20 she bad gained ber first goal, a report ing job on the "Herald" -in Syracuse, N. Y. Not long after she laànded a position at $35 a week: on "The News,"V a brand new tabloid venture in New York City. Reverses followed but -a qui&k wit and, pretty face, earne'd ber a f ree boat ride to Paris and once there. she becanie a re- porter on tbe Paris edition of the "Chxi- cago -Tribune." Off t. Shanghiai A spiffy new outfit' at the expense of the "Tribune" brougbt on another fit of restlessness, and before long she hiad embarked witb a girl f riend for Shang- b ai, China. With ber customary rapidity she joined the 'staff of the "China Press" and a few' montbs later met fate in the form of a busband, one of her fellow journalists. Life there and later in Hawaii proved leisare <lays aheal 1724 Orringt@n AMenue >oi. And from life tcE ar restaur Ain %3)111-irewrite rTelegin is yar's. Like was thc 1 -- r g - >ctures ini E er was 14, 'came tbe on in New Yor Celebritios. ýre hor.se caj

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