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Alfred Emanuel Smith, thrice-elected Governor of New York, was nominated for the fifth- time by the Democrats. Everybody knows "Smiling Al"-he who was born where the crazy, criss-cross shadows of Brooklyn Bridge meet the East Side of Manhattan. Young Alfred was by nature an actor and orator, by trade a seller of fishes in the Fulton Fish Market, when one day in 1896 "Big Tom" Foley, Tammany chieftain, noticed a political gleam in his eyes. Alfred progressed-clerk in the commissioner's office, legislator, speaker of the Assembly, governor, presidential aspirant. The lower East Side sang...
...late at night writing pot boilers, immersed in smoke, eclipsed by coffee. Perhaps "La Menage de Garcon" was one of the potboilers. One of the better potboilers. One cannot be sure when he sees the novel through at least three mediums plus Otis Skinner. "The Honor of the Family", born a bon mot, dies a cliche. One must, however, respect the dead. Mr. Skinner, Miss Jessie Royce Landis are very kind pall-bearers. But why the funeral...
...H.G.G. Herklots was born in India in 1903, and received his early education at Trent College, Derbyshire. He is a rather unusual member to be elected officer of the Union Society, for he is not a politician. It is true that he occasionally puts in an appearance at the committee of the University Conservative Association, yet although he describes himself alternately as a Conservative and as an independent with reactionary tendencies he is probably far more progressive than he allows himself to think. The fact that he takes a keen interest in the, work of the International Student Service...
Wilfred Gurney Fordham was born in London and has spent the greater part of his life in the capital. He was educated at St. George's School, Harpenden, one of the leading co-educational schools in the country, where he was school captain and a prominent footballer. He thence proceeded to Magdalene College, Cambridge, coming into residence in 1922, and taking his degree in June, 1926. For three years of this time at Magdalene, Mr. Fordham came under the Mastership of Dr. A.C. Benson, the popular essayist and novel-writer, whose generosity and personal charm were so highly valued...
Moreover, the students have given birth to this belated child. A mother can not abandon her new-born babe. Thus, it is only natural that these pious young men should play the part of nurse, at least, if only to save themselves from any appearance of hypocrisy. The large attendance at chapel exercists, then, is not even astounding. It is merely the natural course of events. The numbers will without double decrease. The bridge players will be able to enjoy their name without interruption...