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...gave a list of all his books (The Jungle, The Metropolis, The Brass Check, Oil etc.). It sold for 2O¢. Politicians laughed at such campaigning. By last week he had sold about 200,000 copies. He wrote other pamphlets. He started a weekly newspaper Epic News, carrying advertisements, priced 5??. Its circulation reached about 175,000. (Biggest vote he ever polled as a Socialist was about 60,000.) Rivals accused him of running not a campaign but a publishing racket. He replied that he had two bank accounts with $108.74 in one and $20.68 in the other, that his living...
...Conte di Savoia, ploughing across the Atlantic toward New York last fortnight, small John Kennedy, 5??, one day met a nice old priest. He admired the priest's pretty hat, his shiny jewelry. Could he play with them? The kindly-faced priest smiled assent. Small John Kennedy donned the red cloth biretta of a cardinal, jingled a golden cross on a massive chain, slipped a cameo ring on his big finger. Then John's father, New York's Representative Martin J. Kennedy, devout Roman Catholic, protested such impious play. But Alexis Henry Cardinal Lepicier said: "Why not? Nothing is more...
...prices (and even in terms of gold they have been climbing for eight months) are not so questionable. The foreign trade of Brazil and a half dozen other South and Central American republics is almost wholly dependent on coffee, now selling at 9½¢ against a Depression low of 5??¢. When rubber jumps from 10¢ per lb. to 17¢ as it has in the past six months, five times five million souls throughout British Malaya and Dutch East Indies are the gainers. When cocoa rises 1½¢ per lb. from its year...
...Avenue, with a high-fenced side yard which was maintained exclusively for Spinster Wendel's toothless, asthmatic poodle Tobey. Last week it was learned that Drew University had leased the site of the Wendel mansion for a long term to S. H. Kress & Co. who planned to build a 5??-10¢-and-25¢ store...
...large collection of brass-rubbings from old monuments in country churches. At 16 he broke a leg wrestling with another boy at school. He said nothing about it, rode home at the end of the day on a bicycle. He has never grown since. (He is 5 ft. 5?? in.) He took no interest in sports "because they were organized, because they had rules, because they had results." When he won a scholarship at Jesus College (partial to the Welsh) he lived at home except for one term, read voraciously, often 18 hours a day, learned...