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...down to live out her life on a farm, the children she grew up with have gone much further afield. All her sisters have married, all of them much better than Claude. Of the Gerfaut boys, Mark has become an imminently famous writer, Ivan an explorer; Philippe, her special chum, a sculptor. Three months after she married Ernest the World War took him, deposited him in a German prison camp for four years. The Russian Revolution swept away her dowry savings, invested in Russian bonds. When peace came and Ernest was released, things looked brighter; then the post-War slump...
Colonel Wise got started shark-fishing as a boy off the Virginia Capes, when he threw a weakfish out for a big Hammerhead shark and was towed around for miles in his dory. He learned to chum for the brutes with fresh-killed fish, preferably good oily and bloody ones. He learned how to cure a hooked shark of sulking on the bottom: send a lively crab down the line to pinch his nose...
...steady drizzle. They threw a gay pattern on the white front of a fine gabled house. In the living room of the house, where another gaily lighted tree stood, 10-year-old Charles Mattson, his 16-year-old brother Billy, his 14-year-old sister Muriel and her schoolgirl chum from Seattle played and talked as they waited for Dr. & Mrs. William Wrhitlock Mattson to return from a wedding reception...
Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin and his leading lady, Paulette Goddard, arrived in San Francisco from their three-month junket to the Far East, posed blithely with their shipboard chum, scrawny French Poet Jean Cocteau, who is trying to win a bet with a Paris newspaper by equaling the record of Jules Verne's Phineas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days. If he wins. Poet Cocteau writes 20 articles for the paper for "beaucoup de francs." If he loses, he writes them free...
...except an honorary college degree, which she may well get next June. She is Captain of the Texas Rangers, an Honorary Chair man of the Be Kind to Animals Anniversary Week and a Kentucky Colonel. Her offices are not limited to the U. S. She is president of the Chum's Club of Scotland (400,000) and of the Kiddies Club of England. The 165,000 moppet members of the latter swear to imitate her character, conduct and manners. Possibly the smallest of her international titles is that of mascot to the Chilean Navy. President Arturo Alessandri, an admirer...