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...rival, the Scripps-Howard News, which is served by the apparently heinous United Press. The News printed two accounts, one from a United Press man and one by the Associated Press, which serves the gambling Post but whose report on the Presidents speech Publisher Bonfils had seen fit to hash, jazz, garble and publish without naming its source...
...supports them by being decorative in the lobbies of small hotels. Successful Oliver Galbraith and his prim wife Cathie are the foil of respectability. They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes off with a Latin-American. Jack makes a hash of his suicide, thereafter "awakening." With devoted Jill by his side he starts back up the hill of self-support to fetch a pail of the water of self-respect. ... Author Delafield writes well up to her pretensions, which are neither large nor small...
...Biggest J. B.s" [TIME, Feb. 1]. Although this whole procedure is absolutely idiotic, may I remark that as "John" is the commonest American name there are undoubtedly more famous Americans named "John" than anything else. No doubt "Big Johns" also head the lists of bootleggers, stamp lickers, hash eaters, sword swallowers, garbage men and street sheiks. If your readers have nothing better to do I can start them out on a list of "Big Johns" which they can go on adding to until they are tired of such a ninnyhammer's trick. My list: John Thomas Scopes John...
...instead of the 115,000 proposed in the budget; it made no allowances for the building of new barracks. With such additions, the 1366,000,000 bill went to the House to be debated. Skeptics wondered whether the extra five cents a day would mean beefsteaks or merely better hash...
...heavily. Life, however, is simple: flying today, women tonight, tomorrow cannot be helped. It is not quite accurate to call the author unknown. Some of the men he names by name survived-piano-playing Larry Callahan of Chicago, for example; Violinist Albert Spalding; one-armed Alan Winslow; husky Dr. "Hash" Gile of Princeton and New York. They will applaud the terse descriptions of air action, heavily salted with realism and cynicism. They will admire Clayton Knight's sketches of havoc-ridden skies. They will remember the writer as they remember other men in his pages-big "Ros" Fuller, Clarence...