Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Telling the World. Disinherited by his banker-father though he is, the hail-fellow (William Haines) strides into a newspaper office and tells the city editor he wants a job. His first assignment is to interview his father. Another assignment is to cover a murder case, in which a girl is wrongfully accused. He neglects to make the edition and goes running off to China with the girl. Things like that do not happen to newspaper reporters...
Soon a U. S. youth will leave for the Belgian Congo, to battle with the tsetse fly. He is Dr. Warren K. Stratman-Thomas, 28, research pharmacologist at the University of Wisconsin, A. B., M. A., Ph. D., M. D., Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation which annually sends 75 young U. S. scholars, scientists, artists, to study in all parts of the world...
...McCartney watched, studied, ministered to the missionary mind. He recognized the presence of a curious mental instability among transplanted Westerners. In the clinics of St. Luke's Hospital, Shanghai, he saw many a case written down as "neurasthenic," "insane," "neurotic." In the Peking Union Medical College, he heard fellow psychiatrists place the blame on food, climate, economic readjustments. But enthusiastic, 30-year-old Dr. McCartney sought a subtler, more basic cause...
Good though the Tunney-Heeney exchange of pleasantries was, people debated whether Promoter Rickard would get another million-dollar gate. Said Tunney: "Rickard is a nice fellow and a capable man, but I think sometimes he has gone million-dollar daffy. ... I think he could do something for the business if he would reduce prices and purses...
...West Virginia. Mr. Shaver had just been superseded as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee after four thankless years in that office (see p. 7). His mind was free, his troubles over. He felt, no matter what Mrs. Shaver might say about Democratic iniquities, at peace with his fellow creatures. He sent a telegram to the directors of the Wildwood Club, saying: "Fortunate indeed is the golf course which can claim the honor of a great bird that can outbid the game in interest. Millions of Americans have never seen a fish hawk. In the interest of all these...