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Last of the leaders came Class Secretary D. M. Sullivan '33, who finding at noon that he had only four votes, clapped on his fedora and armed with cigars so rallied his forces that at the close of polling he had 12 followers...
...modern Teutonic school of novel-writing, which lines clouded realism with silvery romance, it deserves good marks. Rustic Sebastian Trux comes to the big city to become a banker's lawyer, but Fate opposes. Millionaire Rafael Bassan, who owns racing-stables and tries to own his beautiful bad wife Fedora, has just been robbed of a fortune in stocks & bonds. Ambitious Rustic Trux calls attention to himself by prophesying, from a bit of the man's handwriting, who the thief would turn out to be. Though his clairvoyant accusation carries no legal weight, subsequent tests confirm his prophetic powers...
Sebastian's propheteering publicity leads to an engagement with international Impresario Bimeter. All goes well until the clairvoyant discovers that his divine powers have some devilish effects. A man commits suicide because of his prognostications; Fedora's handwriting reveals to Sebastian what she really is. With the discovery that he had accused the wrong man of the Bassan robbery, Sebastian throws up his prophesying in disgust. He returns to Agnes, a country girl who has kept loving him in spite of his career, and whom he has gotten with child. Anxiety before the child's birth makes...
...office of his old friend and political enemy, the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth of Ohio. He took one look at the room where he may sit after Dec. 7. remarked that it did not look the same "with Nick gone," put on his dinner coat and a taffy-colored fedora hat, went to the White House. At this point neither he nor anyone save the President, his Cabinet and sub-Cabinet knew what was in the wind...
Died. William Louis Courtleigh, 61, actor (Fedora, Electro., Tiger Rose, L'Aiglon, The Ninth Guest), onetime (1913-17) Shepherd of The Lambs (Manhattan theatrical club); of acute in digestion...