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Another Night. Bothered by a superfluity of spectators, Ely Culbertson ordered the room cleared, announced that all the cards used?a fresh deck for each hand???would be auctioned for charity. To settle a controversy, he produced a copy of his Contract Bridge Blue Book, gave it to Mr. Jacoby, asked if Mr. Jacoby wanted it autographed. Said Mr. Jacoby: "I do not." A 15-minute argument over rules occurred when Mr. Culbertson dropped the ace of spades into his lap so that it was seen by his opponents but not by his partner...
...Here are no furrowed cheeks or palsied hand?...
...convention, the convention city would be badly crowded. Though 10,000 Elks dropped out or died in the past year, there are still more than 800,000 of them, in all walks of life.* Cincinnati felt comfortably full last week with some 5,000 of the 800,000 on hand???marching, singing, trapshooting, eating "burgoo" (Kentucky stew), watching fireworks. Purple, the Elk's color, hung everywhere. "Hello, Bill! Are you an Elk?"* was the phrase of the week...
...husbandman, fellow of husbandmen, writer for and teacher of husbandmen, Henry Cantwell Wallace brought to his office a practical and scientific knowledge of agriculture second to none. His understanding of the devices and desires of farmers was gained at first hand???in the days when his father took to the soil in Adair County, Iowa, and later when, as a youth of 20, he was obliged to interrupt his course at the Agricultural College, at Ames, and put in five years raising corn and hogs on one of his father's tenantless farms...
...possibilities were plain. It would react to the disadvantage of the Republican candidate, because Republican campaign funds are always the largest. But the Republicans had no love to waste upon Mr. Coolidge. On the other hand???if he should happen to be tne Democratic nominee?it would probably also react on Mr. McAdoo, who has conducted an elaborate pre-conventlon campaign that must have cost a "mint" of money, not to mention promises of patronage. As for Senator La Follette, if he becomes a third party candidate, the investigation will work entirely to his advantage: he will not have...