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...telegram quickly provided "Poor Devil's" identity. Again he was authentically Harry Stockton Boon, auditor for the Department of Agriculture in whose service he has spent 16 years. He left Washington seven weeks ago. Last week he was on his way to San Diego to visit his brother. Captain Ben Boon of the U. S. Army...
Orphaned at ten, Mrs. Roosevelt was left some $30,000. She is a partner in Manhattan's Todhunter school for girls. Profits go back into the business, which is operated by her boon companion, Marion Dickerman. With her other inseparable friend. Nancy Cook, a tousle headed. unfeminine. effective woman who often dresses mannishly and smokes cigarets in a holder at the side of her mouth. Mrs. Roosevelt operates Val-Kill shops, an enterprise which manufactures antique reproductions at Hyde Park. This is a non-profit concern. In the past five years Mrs. Roosevelt has picked up some...
...those silly doctors admire Mae West but they mustn't tell our daughters that her corseted waist and padded hips are any boon to motherhood...
...issue of TIME (Oct. 16), I read on p. 34 that the Central Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, meeting in Mil waukee last week, congratulated Mae West for popularizing plump female figures, called her style "a boon to motherhood." Such inconsistency is positively nauseating. When I was a girl, doctors spent a great deal of time warning young girls of the terrible consequences of wearing corsets and pulling in their waists...
...from rejoicing at this boon to Chinese journalism, the U. S. owned Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury commented from the smug security of Shanghai's French Concession...