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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week rollicking Bill the sailor, now a little old gentleman of 75, stumped up the gravel drive of Craigwell House, Bognor, to call on King George, with worn logbook in his arms. His Majesty was delighted. For 15 minutes King George and Bill King pawed over the log, looked at pictures of the Bacchante in fair weather and foul, and gazed thoughtfully at the awesome linea ments of their old commander, Captain Lord Charles Scott. "I made the King laugh!" cackled Old Bill, emerging from his interview in high glee. "I recalled to him how once he near upset...
...likes to end with a white Chateau Yquem, "the sweetest, most wonderful of wines." "I never drink any of the wine when I test it," he continued. "That's what most people think is done, but if I swallowed it I couldn't taste its flavor. I look at the color, smell for bouquet, take a little in my mouth to get the taste, and then spit it out. Incidentally America has some of the best water I have ever tasted." Worth memorizing is the fact that 1921 was a "great year" not only for Châateau...
...that she was through with being a prima donna. Her statement was as simple and matter of fact as herself: "My retirement is permanent. I am going West with my family. The farm might be in California and it might be in Colorado but I'm going to look first in the Middle West. I am going to be just like all the other farmers...
...York Morning Telegraph: "The little lady is furiously upset. She does not like the way she has been received and she has, like the overfed child, a dislike for all the present life. . . . I see a cynicism in her manner, a tightness in her face, a tortured look. The impulse which has sent women to the nunnery ... is pushing Marion Talley now. It is a psychological case if the farm plan is sincere ; it is another ballyhoo, like the original Chamber of Commerce stunt, if it is not." Said Manager Gatti-Casazza: "I do not understand. I have always been...
Archibald Robertson Graustein. As a young Harvard law graduate, Archibald Graustein was just the man Tycoon Chace needed to look after his interests. A turbine for work, a turtle for silence, enormously shrewd, Lawyer Graustein was given charge of International Paper five years ago. Consolidations, trade agreements, and his activities on the directorates of other Chace interests, have kept hard-driving Mr. Graustein busy day and night, but now the industrial empire of which he is chancellor is approaching romantic vastitude. Grausteinia is becoming Graustark.* In the imperial coffers lies a treasure to which the felicitous French have given...