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...later Mrs. F. A. Jones, a neighbor, discovered her plight and called the police, but in her excitement gave the wrong address. When she telephoned again the operator said it was a funny story but not to bother her any more. After still a third call, police came to fetch Neighbor Jones for questioning as a suspicious character, but she induced them to visit the entubbed Mrs. Benson. There they met a squad of firemen. They covered Mrs. Benson, fed her, pried her loose...
...heirs. There are five Hearst sons (no daughters) of whom two -Twins William Elbert & Randolph Apperson-are too young to be studied as successors to their father's power & glory (but not too young to borrow one of his airplanes last week to fetch a Pittsburgh girl to the Lawrenceville Junior prom). One of the other three, fat George, 29, is senior-and least likely on his showing to date to handle the Hearst empire when the Chief passes. Nicknamed "Fanny." good-natured Son George has been tried out on the papers in New York and San Francisco, where...
Daughters of Jays, Biddies, Iselins, Pinchots and Cheneys have gone to Miss Walker's strict, impersonal, well-regulated school. Day after the second fire, family automobiles rolled into Simsbury to fetch the girls home. But Dr. Earle Terry Smith, husband of Founder Ethel Walker. announced that he had obtained the use of the country club on Fisher's Island off New London, that the school would carry on there until June. Meantime State police and constables guarded the school property. The fires (loss $300,000) had both been started in windward corners of basements. Not only that: within...
...What do we get for all that money? We get a huge array of expensive buildings, a huge horde of expensive quacks, an immeasurable ocean of buncombe . . . high-salaried experts in solving the insoluble and achieving the impossible ... a truant officer to fetch [the pupil] and police him, a dietitian to save him from scurvy and pellagra, a surgeon to remove his adenoids and tonsils, a dentist to plug his teeth, and a psychologist to chart the movements, if any, of his IQ . . . multitudes of special classes for backward pupils . . . struggling with the uneducable ... ten or twelve years of intensive...
...course, part of the romance of bookselling is the monetary aspect. While it is a mistake to think that booksellers always make a prodigeous profit, fortune may be lurking around who-knows-what corner. I have said that a copy of Incondita would fetch $25,000. I might find one on a bookstall or in an attic next week, or nex year. Or if not that volume, something else of great value...