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...printed remarks of Commentator's commentators were neither new nor original, contained no editorial dynamite. Lowell Thomas dug up old yarns of German inflation. John B. Kennedy contributed an argument against the winning of the heavyweight championship by Negro Joe Louis Barrow on the ground that it would irritate Negrophobes. Mr. Kaltenborn, most literate of the commentators, offered an old interview with Spain's late Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno. Hearst's Edwin C. Hill wrote on political bosses, concluded that hypocrisy was a bad thing. Floyd Gibbons gave an unexciting account of his attempts to broadcast from...
...Vermonters who are talking on the negative side are Ralph W. Pickard '37, Glenn L. Leggett '40, and John F. Barrow '37. Pickard is editor of his college paper...
Besides these principal pegs on which Author Dos Passos hangs his narrative, scores of other characters appear, reappear and fade away. Eveline Hutchins, the Chicago Jazz-age girl, attains a Manhattan salon only to end her career with an overdose of sleeping powder. G. H. Barrow, labor-faker, gets a paunch and a fur overcoat by "settling" strikes. Ben Compton, a Brooklyn Jew turned radical and one of Mary French's lovers, finds his life ruined when he is read out of the Party for being a "disrupting influence." All of them - in politics, manufacturing, advertising, Wall Street...
Last spring when influenza struck Barrow, Dr. Greist had the busiest period of his career. Eskimos have little resistance to influenza. In addition, hunting and fishing had brought them so little profit in recent years that they were undernourished. At the epidemic's darkest moment, Dr. Greist had 13 dead Eskimos lying in his Presbyterian church waiting until their tribesmen could get together enough wood for coffins, dig graves in the frozen earth...
Isolated though he is 550 miles north of the railroad terminal at Fairbanks, Dr. Greist has nevertheless been host to several prominent U. S. citizens during the last decade. In 1926 Explorers Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, having sailed a dirigible across the North Pole, paused at Point Barrow, eleven miles north of Dr. Greist's settlement. More recently, the Lindberghs, flying to China, visited the Greists at Barrow. Last August when Flyers Wiley Post and Will Rogers crashed on a river bank 15 miles from Barrow, Dr. Greist embalmed their bodies...