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Morris Gest, famed theatrical producer: "Ill at my Manhattan home, I was cheered by report from Kansas City, Mo., of the great advance sale there for my revival of the spectacle play The Miracle now on tour. Advance receipts, $50,000, surpassed the records of Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis. 'Keep it up." I wrote to my representative in the field. 'News like you send me is better than any medicine.' "
William Edgar Borah, Senator from Idaho: "I was told last week that I may be descended from Martin Luther. One Katrina Borah was Luther's second wife, and my ancestors came from the part of Germany where she lived. I am considering purchasing a portrait of Katrina Luther, sent me for inspection by an admirer in Germany."
Dr. John T. Dorrance, President, Campbell Soup Co.: "My daughter, Elinor, 18, came to work in my factory last week. She started at peeling tomatoes for 30c an hour. Eventually she will work her way through our entire factory at Camden, N. J., and even into my own office. There my glass-topped desk ' is always clear and ready for action. It carries two inkwells, one containing red ink, the other black. To the right of the wells are some rubber stamps for marking papers. Further to the right is my electric time stamp for dating all letters and orders. Under the glass is" a map of the U. S. marked according to our sales territories. Every morning an attendant places under the glass a statistical summary of current business. Elinor has just returned from a year at the Sorbonne in Paris. She has the mentality to learn this business, which has been developing since 1869. We sell 350,000,000 cans of soups, and pork and beans, as well as of Franco-American food products yearly. Our advertisements have a unique place in U S. advertising; F. Wallis Armstrong's Philadelphia agency sees to it that we get the first advertising page, after text matter, of most huge-circulation magazines. Elinor knows this in general. She will know it in detail. There is the faint possibility that she will take charge of the business after my death, for I have no sons. My other daughters are married. Said I last week: 'I am proud of Elinor.' "