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...informal luncheon with Prime Minister Baldwin, who was the first man to make a European debt settlement with the U. S it was rumored that M. Caillaux picked up valuable pointers as to how to deal with Americans. "We discussed crossword puzzles," admitted Baldwin. Said M. Caillaux: I am going to America to make a Gentleman's Agreement . . Gentlemen, you know, make only offers which they know can be fulfilled...
...Blanche Ring), Publicist Bruce Barton, Jackie Coogan. The collection was entitled A Log of Laughter, One Laugh A Day. Provided they do not get stranded in the North, MacMillan and friends can count upon one loud laugh per day until the return. Specimen joke: "A Jew was solving a crossword puzzle. He said to his family: 'Give me a word in one letter that means a food, and it isn't T. Quick. Give up? X.' (Meaning eggs for those who do not get the accent)?Blanche Ring...
There are many grains of sand in an hourglass and they fall singly, but eventually the hour is passed. So with the hour of crossword puzzles. Last week, the Daily News (Manhattan), following its parent, The Chicago Tribune (TIME, July 6), ceased publishing the little gems of geometric delight...
Each succeeding reunion of the G. A. R. finds its ranks thinner as, one by one, their comrades go to rest. It may be that, 50 years hence, there will be a reunion of newspapers that published crossword puzzles-but already their ranks are thinning. Two papers have dropped out within a few days: The Chicago Daily Tribune, The Atlanta Constitution...
...Paris was there, in the newest hats, wide-brimmed, made of straw, flowers and ribbon, or woven of felt and silk in crossword puzzle patterns; President Doumergue wore his shiny topper; 250,000 people packed the enclosure; Britishers, brought to the scene by a fleet of ten special airplanes, looked for a safe bet; Americans wandered about, each followed by a pickpocket. All Paris was thinking about two gray horses, one of which was pretty sure to take the Grand Prix-the swift Chubasco, the staunch Belfonds. Steve Donoghue, famed British jockey, up on Aquatinte, was liked next best...