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While these pacific pyrotechnics dazzled the spectators, Moscow Radio continued, according to S.O.P., to blast Western capitalist democracies and the lackeys of Wall Street. This contrast moved the New York Herald Tribune to recall Kipling's poem about Adam-zad the bear:
It was the Strand that first published Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill, H. G. Wells's The First Men in the Moon and W. W. Jacobs' "Night Watchman" stories; it gave a head start to such other up-&-coming writers and illustrators as...
In London, twice-divorced Errol Flynn, 40, sporting a beard grown for a movie-in-progress based on Rudyard Kipling's Kim, announced his engagement to Princess Irene Ghica, 19, a blue-eyed Rumanian beauty, who had just arrived from Paris with a gift of his favorite food: French...
In London, Mrs. Elsie Bambridge, fiftyish, daughter of Rudyard Kipling, clamped down on publication of her father's biography, which she herself had ordered written. The author, the Earl of Birkenhead, who had put in three years on the 160,000-word manuscript, said: "We had disagreed" on certain...
Great Ideas. Insatiably curious, S. S. McClure was always on the go in the U.S. and Europe, had an invariable explanation for his restlessness: "I never get ideas sitting still." Returning to the office, he always berated the editors for stagnating in his absence, then dumped a suitcaseful of "great...