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...explicit cabled despatch was the source of TIME'S footnote to a story of how the Revised Prayer Book of the Church of England was debated in the House of Commons. TIME'S footnote said: "An astounding and unprecedented affront to the Holy Trinity was the laying of very heavy bets at leading London clubs during the two days of prayer and debate. Odds of 7 to 4 favoring the Prayer Book narrowed rapidly to even money, and finally reached 5 to 4 against. "Since nearly all members of the exclusive clubs where such betting took place...
...United Press despatch from Paris read, last week: "Recent reports from Rumanian sources tell of sinister political efforts to diminish the importance of the 'Boy King' in the eyes of his own people. 'He is not normally developed,' some have said. 'He is deaf, does not know how to talk and stories of his brilliance are all false...
...American Minister, having addressed His Majesty and perceived that he is not deaf, and having received from his own eyes and daughters, ample testimony of the six-year-old monarch's normalcy, was able and glad to reassure Rumanians who had not access to their King. A scurrilous despatch from Bucharest, last week, envisioned His Majesty as licking with relish and sticking onto many an envelope stamps of the new series which bears his portrait...
Spectacular was the despatch from Detroit which the New York Herald Tribune printed: "Another report current in the financial districts is that the present move is only part of a larger plan whereby, when the present deal is completed, Chrysler will enter the General Motors Corporation through an exchange of one share of General Motors common for two shares of Chrysler and that Walter P. Chrysler will become president of General Motors." That may be set down as improbable...
Persons who skimmed through the Boston despatch containing these words and decided that any man who uttered them must be a living image of Author Sinclair Lewis' fictional creature, The Man Who Knew Coolidge (TIME, April 23), were both unfair and inattentive. The Lewis creature's name was Lowell Schmaltz. The real Boston man to whom the above remarks were credited was Edward F. Horrigan, a Massachusetts fire investigator...