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...about the atomic bomb last week. He was heard with respect: his classic E=mc² formula, announced in 1905, was the foundation of atomic research; a letter from him to President Roosevelt in 1939 helped set the atomic thunders rolling. Last week, in an Atlantic Monthly article ghost-written by Raymond Swing, the sage of modern science spoke...
...made and lost a War fortune in commodities purchased on borrowed money, turned conscientious objector when the U. S. entered the War. Since 1919 he has worked in Wall Street, managed private banks in London and Paris, been in the grain trade in Antwerp, written for financial magazines, ghost-written two books on economics. In all, he has made and lost three fortunes. His last flyer was olive groves in Spain...
Nobody knows how many hoboes there are in the U. S. Nobody knows how many of them are women. Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins says there are 6,800. "BoxCar Bertha," whose ghost-written autobiography appeared last week, doubles the estimate. Whether or not Bertha is always strictly accurate in her figures or her facts, her narrative is cauliflower-ear-marked by the brutal truth, wears no wig. Beside Sister of the Road, such recent revelations as Mark Benney's Angels in Undress and John Worby's The Other Half, pale into comparative respectability. Bertha's birthright...
Last week, Britain's sensation-reading public had something else to ponder besides Skipper Orsborne's memories artfully ghost-written in third-rate Kiplingese. Up in Bow Street Court stood Skipper "Dod" and his Brother Jim Orsborne to hear themselves indicted for stealing the Girl Pat. Trial begins next month in Old Bailey, promises to provide some Grade A nautical sensations. As the two accused sailors stepped out of the iron-grilled prisoners' dock, their lawyer, Christmas Humphreys, hinted: "Very serious allegations will have to be made against certain witnesses for the prosecution...
...Kansan. Curtis' President Walter Dean Fuller was delighted to announce that Mr. Stout shared Mr. Lorimer's beliefs in "fundamental American doctrines." A graduate of the Kansas City Star, Wesley Winans Stout has been one of the Post's associates for twelve years, has written and ghost-written many an article. Last week he set out on a motor trip with his wife for a brief vacation before slipping his solid, substantial and Republican person into George Horace Lorimer's editorial chair before the first of the year...