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...Collier's Weekly James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, retired pugilist, wrote about his spring visit to Russia. Excerpt: "One seemed to lose one's iden tity the moment the Russian border was crossed. You began to feel the meaning of: Oh, to be lord of one's self, unencumbered with a name...
...counsel," "realtor," "beautician." A profession which has never needed a prop to elegance and dignity is Music, yet last week there came a musician's lament. A letter to proud Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra from sensitive Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit Symphony was published. Excerpt...
...Mirror, to whom the book is dedicated. Beaten at every turn by Comet (as Payne was frustrated in business and love), Wayne goes as a passenger on an attempted nonstop airplane flight to Moscow sponsored by his paper (as Payne went in Hearst's Old Glory}. Excerpt: "He wanted to win a signal victory, not through some unsavory sensation, but through an exploit that would redound to his honor and that of the Lantern. [He said:] . . . 'Peters, I have nothing to live for. We are both wrong. Keeping up newspaper circulation with stunts is like reviving...
...July Calvin Coolidge will cease writing his daily newspaper articles for McClure Newspaper Syndicate until some time in September. News of his proposed vacation recalled an excerpt from one of his recent articles: "The brains of the country need relaxation and refreshment more than ever this season...
...Chicago, only girl in the final contest, who it was said might have won first place had she not exceeded the time limit and been stopped by a whistle blast. Winner was Robert Gibson Rayburn, 16, of Newton, Kan. Tall, redhaired, Orator Rayburn spoke in a low. quiet voice. Excerpt from his oration: "The ink on the parchment where the Constitution has been engrossed for years is faded, but if it has been written in letters of living light, this country will march on through the ages, with the sun over its head and the pure blood of an enlightened...