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Many a U. S. emphasizer of athletics might have secretly envied the candor of an advertisement in the London Times last week: "To boys who are good at games - The headmaster of a small public school will accept one or two boys who show promise at athletics at reduced fees of $375! preferably over...
...Chicago last week, in Federal court, Frank Nitti, Al Capone's cousin and reputedly the man who arranges Capone-killings, pleaded guilty to charges of evading payment of $158,823 income taxes, his share of the Capone "mob's" profits for the years 1925-27. With complete candor he explained that the money had been come by through all sorts of racketeering. He was pained and surprised that the Government taxed such incomes. Said he: "I talked with a half a dozen attorneys and they didn't know any more than I did. In 1926 the Circuit...
Mister, or rather Monsieur. Roy saw to it that Mr. Bennett (no Monsieur he) was banqueted first by the French National Association for Economic Expansion, then officially by Minister of Commerce Pierre Etienne Flandin, famed for his philippics against the U. S. tariff. With his usual candor Mr. Bennett said that what he was after was French orders for Canada's surplus wheat, and rumors were not long in growing that what M. Flandin was after was Canadian orders for French surplus wine. In recent years the French have shown a tendency to buy more wheat from Canada, less...
...With a candor possible only to one whose identity is hidden under a pseudonym. "Audacious" preludes his list of the socially elect with a few paragraphs of explanatory comment. "This list is the A-1 list of boys who are invited to all the smartest debutante affairs," he (or she) says. "This group is invited to everything. When more than 250 men are needed as at balls, etc., additional men are invited, but these men receive the cream of all the invitations." The writer goes on to say that the list is made up each spring from the graduates...
With an air of candor, of complete impartiality, Author Busch puts down his easy sentences, his easy paragraphs. Para-doxologist Gilbert Keith Chesterton once remarked that the only trouble with the candid friend is that he is not candid. Author Busch looks like an exception...