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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Safe at Beirut, noted Chicago Tribune correspondent George Seldes filed a sensational bit of news to the following effect: "The rebels at Damascus have threatened to disembowel me if I ever return there." In Manhattan, Gilbert Seldes, famed esthete and onetime editor of the Dial, received this news of his brother with many an uneasy qualm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ham, Ham! Dam, Dam!''' | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...Eduardo Andrade writes a Paris letter, after the fashion of The Dial's correspondents. This, I believe, is an innovation for The Advocate

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVOCATE TERMED GOOD, BUT NOT DISTINGUISHED | 12/12/1925 | See Source »

With the erection this year of the Holden twins, Lionel and Mower, the sun is effectual screened at all times of the day from the face of the dial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIFTY-YEAR OLD SUNDIAL SHADED BY HOLDEN TWINS | 10/23/1925 | See Source »

When asked yesterday if the dial would be moved into the sun on the other side of the Chapel, C. R. Apted, Superintendent of Caretakers, denied that any such plans were under consideration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIFTY-YEAR OLD SUNDIAL SHADED BY HOLDEN TWINS | 10/23/1925 | See Source »

...That dial has been there for a good many years, and so far as I know nobody has ever tried to tell time by it," he said. "It's just as ornamental out of the sun as it was in, and about as useful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIFTY-YEAR OLD SUNDIAL SHADED BY HOLDEN TWINS | 10/23/1925 | See Source »

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