Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BACHELOR FATHER-In which a surly but kind-hearted libertine rallies his bastards round him. June Walker is the most chipper chip of the old block (TIME, March...
Outside his business and his family, Publisher Block has few interests. On his 200-acre estate near Greenwich, Conn., he has a picturesque nine-hole golf course, but his game is indifferent. He once played 13 consecutive holes in fives. It was a triumph he has neither forgotten nor repeated. Occasionally, he rides one of his saddle horses. Occasionally, he takes a hand in running the estate, as this summer, when his gardeners reported that his lake was leaking. For the most part he leaves the house and grounds to his wife. He asks only that he can bring...
Publisher Block is a specialist in friendship. The word itself, with all its synonyms, affects him strongly. "Friendship" is the name of his estate, and next month, when he boards his new private car (the first he has owned) for a vacation in Maine, he will find "Friendship" lettered on its sides. Almost, friendship is a secondary business with Publisher Block. On his office desk lies a small brown leather book, stencilled "A Deed a Day." Here his secretary eagerly inscribes the Block benefactions: $5,000 to Commander Byrd, $10,000 for a new cathedral, $500 for the widow...
Publisher Block is proud of his sons, Paul Jr. (now at Hotchkiss School), and William (entering Hotchkiss next year). Perhaps never was he so proud of them as last September, when "Rudy," their favorite fox terrier, unhappily demised. Down by the golf course went Paul and William with the remains of Rudy. They dug a trench and raised a headstone. They inscribed: "He left us." Publisher Block likes to walk, puffing ever so slightly, from the house to the headstone. It is proof to him that his sons are absorbing friendship...
Distinctions are unknown to him. President Coolidge is his good friend. When Paul Jr. wrote a poem about Lindbergh, the President, no lover of poetry, sent an unusually prompt and cordial note of Presidential praise. Three men won executive pardons because Publisher Block intervened. With Nominee Smith, it is a question of "Al" and "Paul." But Publisher Block is equally fond of Ballplayer Ruth, Mauler Dempsey, Banker Kahn, Globetrotter Walker, Parson Cadman. Said Friend Block, last week: "My wife's hobbies are jades and antiques. Mine are newspapers and human beings...