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...hero" of the story goes to Edward G. Robinson, a definitely fallen college man who dresses up to attend his college reunion. There he joins in the singing or "Far Above Cayuga's Waters," proving that it isn't just Harvard men who pass from champagne parties to the gutter in ten easy lessons...
...threw Macedonia and Thrace, immediately slaughtered 10,000 Greeks, drove 70,000 more from their homes. Money cannot help; dead men have been picked up clutching large sums in their fists. The Italians cover the dead with cloth and carry them away; the Germans kick the dead in the gutter. Greece has many Lidices, towns razed and marked only by a sign printed on a swastika flag...
Global, bearded Elliot Paul is one of the rare writers who has been able to turn an amiable yen for the gutter into pay dirt. If publishers' advance sales figures mean anything, some 25,000 readers were waiting avidly last week for this naughtily natural history of a Paris side street...
Scrap and Iron Ore. From 1936 to 1940 she got from the U.S. 8,222,259 tons of scrap; none since Sept. 30, 1940. For iron ore she depended mostly on imports too. Japan is now confiscating manhole covers, gutter pipes, name plates, old railway cars to build her scrap stockpile...
With Roosevelt II the Colonel really hit his stride. Nor was he concerned when he was caught in outright manufacture of anti-Roosevelt shockers. A Tribune story in 1936 showed a ragpicker in a gutter scooping up Roosevelt buttons which Party workers presumably could not persuade anybody to wear. The Colonel did not apologize when the Chicago Times ran a full-page spread in which the Tribune's ragpicker re-enacted the button scene which he claimed a Tribune reporter paid him 25? to fake. Nor did the Colonel try to collect a $5,000 reward by the Times...