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Last week at some wrestling matches in Philadelphia. Arena, a slight, dark Public Ledger photographer named Donald Corvelli spotted Franklin Roosevelt Jr. & party in the tenth row. During some excitement caused by one cf the wrestlers being hurled from the ring, Cameraman Corvelli popped his flashbulb, aimed his lens at Junior Roosevelt. The latter saw him, ducked forward, but too late. Grinning, Cameraman Corvelli trotted toward an exit. In a flash Roosevelt Jr., boiling mad, was out of his seat and at the cameraman's heels. He over-took him in the lobby, spilled him to the floor, jumped...
...Last week's Philadelphia rumor: The Curtises plan to dispose of the costly morning Public Ledger, continuing only the evening and Sunday editions. Overhead saved from the morning Ledger would pay the installments on the more profitable Inquirer...
...which almost all the participants lose anyway. I pointed out to the men that they had a much bigger war ahead of them than any war they had ever been in, that is to say, a fight against themselves to get on the right side of the ledger...
With many Catholic readers (and a Catholic M. E.) you can imagine that things got pretty hot for the Ledger in the ensuing weeks. In some churches parishioners were told not to read the paper henceforth. The Cardinal wrote a letter to Mr. Curtis. My landlady made me move. The Ledger accumulated what is perhaps the most remarkable "Don't" list in the history of American journalism (and there have been some swell "don't" lists), in an effort to avoid any further annoyance to the Catholic Church. One of these "don'ts" represents to my mind...
...unthinkable in a parlor: but his grandson William K. Vanderbilt would see all doors open to him in time," The Author. In 35 years, Matthew Josephson has done a variety of things. Brooklyn-born (1899), Columbia-educated, after a year as financial and literary editor of the Newark Ledger he joined the post-War literary exiles in Paris, wrote for transition, helped edit Broom. Two years on Wall Street as a customer's man turned his eyes from surrealiste poetry to Coolidge finance. Married, with two sons, Josephson lives at Gaylordsville, Conn, near his good friends Charles and Mary...