The Press: Dingwall's Derby

Circulation managers who thought they had tried almost every kind of subscription contest scratched their heads and whistled as they read a United Press dispatch from Miami last week. Up before U. S. Commissioner Roger Edward Davis went one John Howard Dingwall, 40, who has toured the East in a trailer with four young girls and a 29-year-old "chaperone." The girls sold subscriptions for assorted magazines and turned in their orders to Dingwall. How he rewarded them was thus described by Crew Member Lucy Kitteridge, 18:

"I found out that the highest salesgirl...

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