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General John Joseph Pershing gave an interview to newshawks on his 70th birthday (Sept. 13). Excerpt: ". . . Nothing gives me more happiness than that I have never been drawn into political life. I have watched what happens to holders of high political office. I have seen their every word distorted and twisted to find some hidden meaning. I have seen their political supporters picture them as prodigies of wisdom and statesmanship while their opponents at the same time set them out as stupid scoundrels. And I have known them, and known that they were neither the one nor the other, just...
...Excerpt: "You must be prepared to assume some line of business which will give you the entree desired. You may have to go so far as to pretend you are getting up a directory to cover your reason for asking who occupies the office. If the person enters a theatre you must get close enough to see where he goes...
...grandchildren; to Helen Newington Wills Moody, $20,000 and valuable works of art "in appreciation of her winning the tennis championship for California"; to many a friend in the U. S., South America and England, many a thousand; to two nieces and a nephew, most of the residue. Excerpt from the will: "I declare on my honor that I have never been married, and never have been a parent of a child in or out of matrimony, but in case anyone claiming or pretending to be my wife or child or grandchild should establish such claims in any court...
...obscured by the audacity of the St. Louis Star's Reporter Harry T. Brundidge. Reporter Brundidge went to Miami Beach, Fla. to interview Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone, following up the theory that Lingle was only one of many corrupt newsmen. From Florida Brundidge sent his paper a sensational story. Excerpt...
...current Dartmouth Alumni Magazine is an essay by Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, second son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr., married last week (see p. 48). Subject: "The Use of Leisure." Excerpt: "Probably the thing from which I derived the most benefit in connection with The Five Arts* was the contact I had with outside speakers. . . . A day or so spent in the company of such men and women as Harry Emerson Fosdick, Thornton Wilder, Bertrand Russell, and Edna St. Vincent Millay are opportunities that few are fortunate enough to have...