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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heroic city of Mons is known to smart Belgians as the seat of a somewhat narrow-minded and Mrs. Grundyish local aristocracy. Therefore when Swedish-born Crown Princess Astrid of Belgium visited Mons some weeks ago, she was believed to have committed a thoroughgoing faux pas by producing her small gold cigaret case, at the close of a Civic High Tea, and snapping her cosmopolitan lighter...
...From that incident was born my desire to quit the ring-forever, the first opportunity that presented itself. I wanted to defend my title. I wanted to make enough money, but most of all I wanted to leave the game that had threatened my sanity before I met with an accident in a real fight with six-ounce gloves that would permanently hurt my brain...
...Author. MacKinlay Kantor, Iowa born and bred, contributed much padding and less literature to his mother's local magazine, got considerable publicity from his ballad on Floyd Collins in the Chicago Tribune column, and worked, like the hero of his first novel, for County Cook. He wrote Diversey in three months, and until the royalties come in, he is supporting his wife and child on detective stories...
...Young Foyle is cast upon an imaginary mid-Pacific island-not to found the new social order, but to encounter thrilling adventures among relics of four races: satyrs who mate with human beings, ruka-birds of uncanny intelligence, high-minded followers of the Priest of Gir, and the low-born descendants of a pirate crew. Satyr hunts, cannibalistic orgies, hair-raising escapes are in order. But Author Wright will rather be remembered for the swift ingenuity of his unique Deluge...
...Born. To Ann Harding (Mrs. Harry Bannister), actress (The Taming of the Shrew, The Trial of Mary Dugan, etc.), a nine-pound daughter; in Pittsburgh...