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...with his brother Henry Wallace ("Wally"). He was intercollegiate light-heavyweight wrestling champion. Today his weight is exactly the same-175 Ib.-and he still likes to wrestle at the New York Athletic Club. Also he plays good golf at Southampton, L. I. with his friend Publisher Wilfred John Funk. More than golf or wrestling he likes chess. He is rarely seen without a pipe between his teeth...
...Funk & Wagnalls...
Died. U. S. Representative David Joseph O'Connell, 62, of the 9th New York Congressional District (1919-21 and since 1923), author of the bill which sent Gold Star Mothers to France, member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sales manager of Funk & Wagnalls Co., onetime president of the Booksellers' League of New York; of a heart attack while seated in a bootblack chair; in Manhattan...
...also be said that you can talk business into a blue funk. And that is what many newspapers seem to be trying...
...Private Funk, pacifist at heart in the heart of a nation under arms, elects to be a stretcher-bearer and as such is sent to the Western Front. But he is physically unable to do the work, is transferred to the dressing station behind the lines. Here he makes himself indispensable, soon is more useful than the surgeon. A writer in peacetime, he knows nothing of medicine, learns gradually how little can be done to help the wounded, even before the medical supplies begin to give out. before they have to use paper bandages, the same dressings over and over...