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Children of the U. S. can count glibly, "five pennies are a nickel, two nickels are a dime;" but children of the Irish Free State must become even glibber. They must count in the following strange fashion...
Such counting was actually studied last week by Irish tots, fingering and counting bright new Irish Free State coins, each adorned with a harp on one side and on the other animals as follows...
Throughout the week Irish Free State news-organs published hundreds of letters from irate citizens, most of whom wanted to know why neither St. Patrick nor the Shamrock appears on any of the new coins. The Committee on Coins, which chose the designs, is chairmanned by symbol-loving Poet William Butler Yeats, winner of the Nobel Prize. Shrewd Poet Yeats offered no explanation or defense of the coins, merely observing that the designs were made by Sculptor Percy Metcalfe of Yorkshire, England, who triumphed in competition with such Masters as Paul Manship and Ivan Mestrovic...
...Renaud, until recently managing editor of the New York Evening Post, went to work at the desk of the departed whirlwind. His duties were to be the same but his title was Managing Editor, not Executive Editor. It was expected that Publisher Ralph Pulitzer would not give Renaud so free a hand as he had given Swope...
...humorist. On the contrary he went to art school in his native Buffalo and later in New York, and learned to paint compositions of fish and bananas in new and thoughtful poses. His sense of humor could not be stifled, and in 1910, when he was 21 and very free, he eloped with a Buffalo girl. This prank turned out well. Mr. & Mrs. Anthony had two children and Mr. Anthony became a comedian in earnest. After ten years of free-lancing with cartoons and covers he joined the staff of Judge and in 1922 became editor...