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Died. Richard Le Gallienne, 81, top-ranking translator of romantic French verse, tireless romantic poet (Lonely Dancer, The Junk-Man and Other Poems'), father of Actress Eva Le Gallienne in Mentone, France...
Boning Up. In Denver, nine-year-old Richard Junk fell out of a tree, hoped to keep his injury secret, made a few discreet inquiries about the technique of bone-setting, did a capable job on his own broken...
...week's end no one had. But Railroader Robert R. Young, whose Chesapeake & Ohio is one of the 57 railroads that now own Pullman, informally rapped ICC.* "It's a pity," said he, "that the company is getting an 'increase in fares on the old junk that...
Said Britain's Valentine G. Lawford: "It is deplorable that we should be subjected to the same old junk we have heard meeting after meeting, day after day, week after week, month after month, about lies, provocations, noises and repetitions. We are a moderately intelligent and responsible group of men, not a gathering of illiterates...
...blame for Italy's being in history's junk yard? Italy's witty ex-Premier Francesco Nitti named a couple of safe scapegoats: Christopher Columbus and Niccolo Machiavelli. Machiavelli, Nitti explained, had "made us Italians out as men who are always ready to lie," Columbus was an even bigger culprit: his "indiscretion," Nitti claimed, had "shifted the axis of the world to the West," and Italy had been off the beam ever since...