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...first marriage proposal came from bachelor President Arthur. Accepting one of the hundreds that followed, she backed out hurriedly when she learned about the facts of married life. Her seven-year conquest ended when British Ambassador Sackville-West was sacked for putting his nose into a U. S. election campaign. A month later he became Lord Sackville, finished out a long, lazy life "reading right through Gibbon every other year and whittling paper-knives from the lids of cigar-boxes." As mistress of Knole Castle and pet of Edward VII, Victoria took London into camp as she had Washington, married...
...that he stands for "militant Marxism," he regrets that his Socialist father went so far as to tag him "Marx" after Karl Marx. Communism as today conceived in Russia is, according to the Minister of the Interior, "a despicable compromise with the principles of The Revolution." Himself no compromiser, Bachelor Dormoy once had half his great beard torn off in a political argument. Last week as Minister of the Interior and as a militant Marxist there fell to Marx Dormoy a delicate task. He must explain before the bar of French public opinion the meaning of large quantities of small...
...William Seifriz of the University of Pennsylvania lives a quiet bachelor's life in Chester Springs, collects old Italian bronze and French porcelain, permits no telephone in his house. At his ground-floor laboratory in Philadelphia he good-humoredly allows an impertinent squirrel to come in by the window, make off with chocolate bars and filter paper. Squirrels, however, are not Dr. Seifriz' favorite pets. On a far greater favorite of his he last week performed an experiment with extraordinary results...
Hutchins suggested that students without definite abilities should not be allowed to go beyond the sophomore year. In order "to induce people to leave" at that time, some degree will have to be given them. Since degrees are meaningless anyway, the Bachelor of Arts might as well be given then...
Frampton Mansell munitions manufacturer, art patron, bachelor, a snappy dresser who cultivated his whiskers to bring out his resemblance to Sir Francis Drake. His phobia was ineficiency; his favorite pastime, composing ads for the latest wrinkle in Mansell ma-chine guns: "Mansell's Deadly Death Rose". . . A child can use it . . . Invaluable to all Dictators . . . A Corpse for a Ha'penny...