Word: j
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Dr. Paul A. Lewis, 50, of Princeton, N. J., bacteriologist with the Rockefeller Institute; in Bahia, Brazil; of yellow fever, while trying to find a more effective preventative...
...among the staid members of the Secretariat. Little used to entertaining pompous monarchs who travel as does Egypt's Fuad with a small army of retainers, Secretariat members thought only in the nick of time to provide a throne for the dusky, red-fezzed potentate. Acting Secretary General J. A. M. C. Avenol, flustered in the absence of his chief, suave, assured Sir Eric Drummond, madly canvassed Geneva's second-hand shops until he found a massive chair heavy with carvings and bright red plush into which the king of Egypt would decorously fit. The democratic, glass-walled...
...without humor, Editor Barzini described a little-suspected shortcoming of the tabloid-size newspaper. When the Corriere first started, he related, a laborer wrote in from Trenton, N. J., and said: "Your newspaper is beautiful and interesting and I like it very much, but it is too small to wrap my lunch in." Added Editor Barzini: "There was torn from our eyes the veil of the mysteries of certain newspaper circulations...
Thus ran the story which J. P. McEvoy energized with Broadway chatter in his novel Show Girl (1928). And thus runs the plot of the musical show which Producer Ziegfeld, as Writer McEvoy had planned, has energized with girls, Gershwin tunes, and spillings from the largest cornucopia of talent in the girl-show business...
...Rice Lake, Wis., one J. F. Baskin last week offered $100 reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of the person who has been cutting off the tails of the Baskin cows...