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...Bernie Baruch is a Democrat. He was Woodrow Wilson's chairman of the omnipotent War Industries Board, financed a host of Senatorial campaigns during the lean Republican years, was the heaviest single contributor to the Democratic cause in 1932. Yet Mr. Baruch has been no closer to Roosevelt II than to Hoover, Coolidge and Harding, to all of whom he furnished disinterested personal counsel and advice. But inevitably his words were taken as those of a Democrat when last week he said such things as these...
...critic, first on the New York Times, later on the New York Herald, Sun and World, he gushed one day like a Southern belle, the next flogged, like Simon Legree. As playwright, he collaborated with George S. Kaufman on the moderately successful Channel Road (1929), Dark Tower (1933). As contributor to The New Yorker, he wrote with equal vivacity on anagrams and croquet, of crime and parlor games. As author, he wrote books about dogs, the theatre, Irving Berlin, Mrs. Fiske (his stage idol), Dickens (his literary idol), achieved a best-seller with While Rome Burns. As editor, he compiled...
...Fifth Avenue and Manhattan's Public Library) to larger quarters on the second floor of an East-side loft building (No. 239 East 39th Street), which prior to Prohibition had been a brewery. Here on Sundays there was heat but it was sometimes hard to gain admittance. One contributor, bringing his weekly contribution and unable to get in, resorted to drastic means. He picked up a rotten turnip in the street, gave a heave, and it landed amid a shower of glass on the editor's desk...
Large state contingents are not confined to the East, with Ohio, Illinois, and California accounting for 319, 257, and 243 students respectively. Connecticut is the second largest contributor in New England with...
...story was the work of Oland D. Russell. Few ringside sportsmen 49 years ago would have wagered that the stumbling, blotched pulp of Jake Kilrain would serve him to a ripe age of 78. Almost as astonishing as his longevity was the Mercury's luck in timing Contributor Russell's story with Jake Kilrain's unpredictable death last week, the first display of editorial prescience the monthly has made since Henry L. Mencken & George Jean Nathan started Mercury for Alfred A. Knopf 14 years ago; the most noteworthy editorial happening in the Mercury since Paul Palmer bought...