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Stephen Vincent Benet He Carries About Gum, Candy, Some Books...
Stephen Benét has a large head, indefinite hair, wears huge glasses, carries an entire desk-full of papers, gum, candy, cigarettes and a book or two constantly about his person. His military ancestors, among them a Chief of Ordnance, have not given him precision of movement...
...loins that sired him and from the Andalusian breasts that he suckled "- What magnificent figure is about to stride across the printed page? For whose entry was this tremendous barrage of rhetoric laid down ? A Mussolini? A d'Annunzio? No. The Daily News (New York), upstart, rich-quick, gum-chewing little brother of the Chicago Daily Tribune, made this preparation for Luis Angel Firpo. He " has acquired the Mediterranean grace of stride, suavity of conduct, beauty of gesture and an inimitable pose before the human gallery in all he does...
...Salt Lake City 77 1:56 " Seattle 74 12:31 " San Francisco 96 12:44 " Los Angeles 99 12:57 " San Diego 100 12:58 " The Yerkes Observatory expedition (TIME, Sept. 3), in charge of Director Edwin B. Frost, is financed by William Wrigley, Jr. (chewing-gum man) with a gift of $5,000, and occupies sites on Santa Catalina Island (directly in the path of totality), which is owned by Mr. Wrigley. Oh a plateau 1,300 feet above sea-level an observatory equipped with elaborate telescopic and photographic apparatus has been erected."; The unique feature of the Yerkes...
Stars twinkle, the moon beams; thousands upon thousands of people, from gum-chewing Babbitts to omniscient Congressmen, traverse the Atlantic year after year. But the " first man in the world " has never set foot in the United States. According to general press reports, ex-Premier David Lloyd George is due to arrive in the U. S. next month. The Hearst press, however, (not to be outdone) said?on Aug. 25?that he would arrive " in three weeks' time&"i. e., on Sept. 15. At all events, the man who is hated in Germany, loathed in France, detested in Italy,'' whose...