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...have a "slice" of the production; so is Ticket Broker Joe Leblang's widow. Working for others, Ziggy felt he must be surer than ever of success. Accordingly he aimed pointblank at the middle-aged male who is the basic support of all girl shows, by having shapely Faith Bacon open the proceedings with nothing on at all. Gladys Glad, still rated as the most perfect "Zig" ever discovered, was paraded after Miss Bacon, led out by handsome, hard-working Harry Richman, to whom few tired businessmen's wives are indifferent. Richman's duty was to pace the evening...
...unburied old skeletons of Republican scandal, President Hoover's dedication of the Harding memorial was the most politically costly event of the whole trip. Though the President met the issue squarely by declaring that Harding had been betrayed by his trusted friends, nevertheless the malodorous names of Albert Bacon Fall and Harry Micajah Daugherty bobbed up to be linked in headlines with his own. Daugherty, a trustee of the Harding Memorial Association, was present at the Marion ceremony, sat behind the President. Later a controversy arose as to whether President Hoover had greeted with a handshake...
...William Howard Taft, he has kept the court abreast of its docket by having all petitions for review, particularly those in criminal cases, acted upon in a week or so, winnowing out the real questions from the dilatory technicalities. Fortnight ago the Supreme Court refused to consider Albert Bacon Fall's bribery review after his petition had been on file just five days...
This syllabus of culture, or notebook of Durant, lists: ten Greatest Thinkers (Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Copernicus, Bacon, Newton, Voltaire, Kant, Darwin) ; ten Greatest Poets (Homer, Author of the Psalms, Euripides, Lucretius, Dante, Lipo, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Whitman); 100 Best Books for an education (approximate cost, $300; time required for reading: four years at seven hours per week, ten hours per volume). Syllabuster Durant reviews his favorite modern philosophers (Spengler, Keyserling, Bertrand Russell), his favorite modern literary lights (Gustave Flaubert, Anatole France, John Cowper Powys), fills up the rest of his 426 pages with comments on his trips...
...trustees who meet this week to decide the question which has heated up many a Stanford alumnus: Shall Dr. Wilbur continue to administer the university from Washington, or shall complete control be given to Acting President Robert Eckles Swain? Among the trustees are: Banker Leland Whitman Cutler, of Bacon, Cutler & Cooke in San Francisco; Sugar Merchant Wallace McKinney Alexander, past president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce; Board Chairman Frank Bartow Anderson of the Bank of California; Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times; Judges John Thomas Nourse Jr. and Marcus Cauffman Sloss; President Paul Shoup of Southern...