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...sold his first piece of verse to Judge for $3. After working his way through the University of Wisconsin, writing for college papers and holding down odd jobs, he began his career on a Butte, Mont. newspaper. When, after four years there, he sold ten "poems" at one lick to the Saturday Evening Post (Songs of a Mining Camp), he pulled up stakes and went to New York...
Edward Ballard is a modest, retiring millionaire who likes to raise and show horses. He is not a Catholic, not even a churchgoer. Born of poor parents some 60 years ago in the hills near French Lick, he made his way alone, accumulated a fortune in the hotel business and in American Circus Corp. At West Baden, a mile from French Lick where the late Thomas ("Tom") Taggart, Indiana's longtime Democratic boss, operated a famed spa (Pluto Water), Mr. Ballard built a handsome 500-room hotel, surrounded by 585 landscaped acres. Until the Depression West Baden Springs Hotel...
...protest against any degree or honors for E. Hanfstaengl. He is an avowed enemy of our institutions. He is, besides, allied with the German Secret Service. Are you going to be public toadies and lick spittles forever? There is such a thing at a Boycott. Sincerely yours. Benjamin DeCasseres
...also allowed her some coffee and tea (without sugar or cream) and large quantities of water. A week of that diet lost her 4½ lb., brought her down to 135¾ lb., made her whimper: "I'm hungry. And I'm tired. I couldn't lick a kitten...
...Henry R. Stern). The season's most disagreeable title cloaks one of the few straight Negro comedies ever produced on Broadway. Inoffensive and in spots disarmingly merry. Brain Sweat is concerned with Henry Washington's "projeck." Henry (fat, benign Billy Higgins, nightclub comedian) has not done a lick of work in two years. While his wife and son support him, he has been content to wear a fine patina on the seat of his rocking chair and cogitate means of making some easy money. "Brain sweatin','' explains Henry, "is de wus' kind of sweatin...