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...Kellogg headline. ". . . The Spokesman for the Secretary of State can make no comment upon the Mexican situation." There must even be a Spokesman to refuse to comment. Enraged beyond being gentlemen, readers turn to pages where cavort persons who do not hold office. Here, for instance, is a despatch announcing the year-old secret marriage of John Hayes Hammond Jr.: "When confronted, the Spokesman for the Hammond family reluctantly confessed to the match...
...insignificant news despatch from Britain told that his Anglican Grace, the Bishop of London, will disembark on the U. S. heath "within the next few weeks." The Bishop, the item noted, would bring his vestments with him. His equipage will include a wardrobe which would be the envy of a Zulu wife-hunter for brilliance, of an Eskimo seal-hunter for warmth, of a U. S. antique-hunter for traditions. The most venerable are the: Alb, which is a white linen robe, once form-fitting (contracted from the flowing garment of Biblical times in order to give greater facility...
...still with me.'" Quentin was also with him then- poor little "Quinikins," who was later shot down in an aeroplane over the German lines. "The day the news of Quentin's death came, Mr. Roosevelt was at Oyster Bay. . . . after reading the despatch, he carried the sad tidings to his wife. Then he put his arm around her waist and together they walked in silence down the path which led into the woods. Down that path I had seen them go so many times together, just like this, his arm around her waist, as attentive as a young...
...Prince, Sir Hari Singh, was detected in intimate residence with a "Mrs-. Robinson" at Paris (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924, LAW) the world reverberated with the scandal of his trial under an alias, "Mr. A." Yet last week, sentimentalists from Benares to Boston scanned with moist-eyed approval a meagre despatch from India...
...erstwhile young scapegrace, it was touted, has brought back from the Occident more than a world-notorious name, has sown among his benighted people the priceless seeds of Western knowledge. . . . Cynics scented propaganda in the despatch, awaited more of the same from Sir Hari's highly paid and skillful British advisers. The late Maharaja, Sir Pratap Singh, has not been long in his grave (TIME, Oct. 5, MILESTONESQ, and the coronation of his nephew, Sir Hari (TIME, March 8), occurred so recently as to preclude $150,000 increase in the Kashmir forest revenues by any "Western" method- except...