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Albert Bacon Fall, 65, had the more startling career and faces the more dismal future. From a cattle prospector he rose to be Secretary of the Interior under President Harding. Born in Kentucky, he spent most of his youth in the saddle in the territory of New Mexico. Then he plunged into law and politics. Reward came. He was elected the first U. S. Senator from New Mexico. Senator Fall, weighing 180 pounds,* wearing a wide-brimmed hat of the southwest, was popular in a frontierish sort of way. Most important was his friendship with that unimpressive, loyal group...
Edward L. Doheny, 70, is an opportunist and a pioneer. Born in Wisconsin he hunted gold in California. He found some, but at 36 he found himself nearly penniless in Los Angeles. So he discovered oil near that city, rose again and fell again financially. Then he got himself a horse and set out to explore Mexico. Rich oil fields met his eye; he organized the Mexican Petroleum Co. Now, he has accumulated a fortune of some $100,000,000. Perhaps, he regards his Elk Hills leases as Doheny was a bribe, or at least just another successful...
...come east. Mr. Harry Hansen, erstwhile of the Chicago press but now on the staff of a New York paper; describes the sensations of migration--in his case a permanent one --in the current Bookman. Deep in a long paragraph one finds the enigmatic statement that--"Many authors are born in Chicago but they do not die there." Nor is this anti-Chicago propaganda, as Mr. Hansen carefully adds. Chicago is a very fine place--but not for authors; publishers' cheques are almost always drawn on New York banks. Besides the mercenary attitude there is also the aesthetic: My work...
Another side-light on the number of offspring of University alumni is afforded by Professor J. C. Phillips, nationally known genetic expert, who says, "It is worthy of note that the number of children born to Yale graduates is almost constantly higher than that for Harvard, while the number of childless marriages is slightly less...
...Born. To William Emmett Dever, Mayor of Chicago, a granddaughter, in Chicago...