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Like Funnyman Will Rogers of the New York Times syndicate and all-wise Arthur Brisbane of the Hearst Staff, Colyumist Coolidge will be completely untrammeled in his roving assignment. "Usually Mr. Coolidge will write on something in current American life which he feels interesting. He is free to comment, criticize, moralize or recollect. Education, religion, business, Prohibition, fundamental problems of government, fishing, farming and a hundred other subjects are in his field...
...realm of pure art seemed indicated by the jury of award which listed among others Sculptors Gutzon Borglum, Lorado Taft, Artist Charles Dana Gibson, Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett. Many of the competing sculptors were obviously serious in their work. The work of some was creditable. To most, however (including Colyumist Robert Littell of the New York World who suggested that the advantage of soap statuary was that it would float in case of flood whereas the marbles of Praxiteles would sink), the contest seemed amusing...
...Both Colyumist Brisbane and breezy, able John F. Sinclair of the New York World ignored the merger battle, focused upon the issue of whether any executive is worth a million a year. Said Mr. Brisbane, uncompromisingly: "A civilization that can afford to pay $250,000 a year salary for a few minutes talk on the radio can afford $1,000,000 for running a big steel concern." But Writer Sinclair quoted the late, great Nicholas F. Brady: "No employe of a well-run corporation can possibly be worth in salary over $100,000 a year...
...Grace's, salary. In Youngstown, only the day before, a new petition had charged that this salary exceeded $1,000,000 annually, "for which," the petition added, "he renders no adequate service or consideration." Never before had such things been said of the man whom Colyumist Arthur Brisbane immediately characterized as "one of the ablest steel men living...
...reporter. Wartime British Army lieutenant (buried alive in a Somme dugout and consequently rendered unconscious for weeks, unhealthy for life), Paris correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, author (Murder for Profit, Leviathan, Twelve Against the Gods, Italy under Mussolini, Cancer of Empire), dramatist (Overture, 1920), recently a vivid, penetrating triweekly colyumist for the New York World: of peritonitis after an appendectomy; at Avignon, France...