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Said Major Sy Bartlett: "How can I miss? My hands are frozen to the release...
...long-needed reforms to British diplomacy. Hereafter the diplomatic, commercial and consular services will be combined in a single foreign service. New recruits will be chosen by competitive examination. Those passing will be given an 18-month traveling scholarship to study languages and history abroad. (Said Liberal M.P. Vernon Bartlett: "It will no longer be almost essential to have a silver spoon in one's mouth when one is born or an old-school tie when one is adolescent...
...seat in another plane, but halfway to Salt Lake City the weather ahead forced the ship to return to its field. He took a third ship-and that was grounded for four hours at Albuquerque. Thus, at Los Angeles, at last, 16 hours, 5 minutes behind schedule, arrived Joseph Bartlett Eastman, Director of the Office of Defense Transportation...
When the Jones clique learned he wanted to be a prize fighter they formed a syndicate to back him: 22 of them, including Jones, Sportswriter Grantland Rice, Actor Frank Crumit, Socialite Tommy Tailer, Stockbroker Clifford Roberts, L. B. Maytag (washing machines), Bartlett Arkell (BeechNut Co.), Aired Severin Bourne (Singer sewing machines) and many another gold-spooned golfer. To manage their waif, they got Chick Wergeles, a Broadway press agent...
...still retaining the old name of Caisson Club held their first meeting for the election of new officers. The work of the evening was the election of new officers. The men chosen were Cadet Captains Robert Y. White '43, new President, Wilford S. Alexander '43, Vice-President, Thomas F. Bartlett '44, Secretary, and Niles Chubb 1G and '43, Treasurer...