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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reds looks for leadership to the dictator of Soviet Russia, silent, ruthless Josef Stalin; and consequently hates and fears famed Leon Trotsky, whom Stalin has booted out of Russia despite the fact that Trotsky was one of the first and greatest leaders of the Soviet Revolution, the friend of Lenin and the creator of the Soviet army. Of all the leaders of Communism, Leon Trotsky is the one least "hooked up with Capitalism," whereas Stalin is getting into constantly better relations with the capitalist Powers. But last week Comrade Trotsky did write exclusively for the Times the story...
Helma was an offish, disdainful girl, daughter of a lawyer in Byzantium, Ohio. She went to the local college where a freshwater esthete named Winfield Gaines (but called "Phoebe") was her friend until he was expelled. She studied singing with a local teacher who had a book called Lyra Operatica, full of stilted engravings of old singers in the pinched and flowing costumes of classic roles. She herself had a big rich voice. It was for church-singing, perhaps someday teaching. Certainly not for the sinful ways of opera. But when her father and mother died, Helma went...
Distrait, Mark appealed to his friend, but Robert's letters brought no solace-only the melancholy news that his own wife had left him, because forsooth he had been rude to an old hag of a spiritualist...
Kingsbury. A close friend of the Fleishhackers is smooth, dignified, impeccable Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury, head of Standard Oil Co. of California. He has been mentioned as the Rockefeller candidate for Board Chairmanship of Standard Oil of Indiana. Once (in 1923) Mr. Kingsbury, taking a cross-continental trip, was shocked to discover waiting for him at every station no less strange a present than a bag of onions. The onion-sender was Herbert Fleishhacker. Soon, at the Anglo & London-Paris National Bank, there arrived a return present from Mr. Kingsbury. The Kingsbury gift consisted of two water-buffaloes, several crates...
Divorced. Clare Briggs of Manhattan, newspaper cartoonist (The Days o/ Real Sport, When a Feller Needs a Friend); by Mrs. Ruth Owen Briggs of New Rochelle, N.Y., on testimony that Cartoonist Briggs had been in residence with a pseudo Mrs. Briggs. The Briggses were married in 1900, have three children...