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...Back in Manhattan, Lincoln Steffens got him a job on the American Magazine. Soon it began to look like Harvard all over again. He was taken into the Dutch Treat Club, was spoken of as a coming man by many a highly-paid hack. He was taken in by Mabel Dodge, whose Fifth Avenue salon was then running full blast. Her possessiveness eventually became a nuisance, but at her house Reed met the man who changed his life: William ("Big Bill") Haywood, famed I.W.W. leader. When Haywood told him about the Paterson silk-mill strike, Reed went...
...Philadelphia's Convention Hall attended by 15,000. They varied in expense from the 35? charged in Milwaukee to the $100 a plate charged at a dinner given at Manhattan's Central Park Casino by Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann Magraw, one-time actress (Up in Mabel's Room}. Mrs. Magraw found, however, that she could sell only two $100 tickets, to herself and her husband. So she refused to wear her tiara, did not use her gold plates, filled her table at $7.50 a head. The first Presidential birthday ball (1934) netted...
...Mabel Eaton of Montclair, N. J. had brought suit for divorce against her husband Warren, charging cruelty. Husband Eaton filed a countersuit, going his wife one better by charging she kicked him while he was bending over a toy last Christmas eve. Seeking custody of their daughter Mabel, 10; and their son Warren Jr., 5, Father Eaton submitted that he is a Methodist, that his wife had announced that that denomination is one with which she would not permit her children to be connected. Mr. Eaton said his wife had brought home atheist pamphlets, schedule of atheist meetings, Karl Marx...
...This is just as good as Clara Phillips, isn't it?" Mrs. Mabel Frances Willys, 38, anxiously inquired of a group of Los Angeles newshawks one day last week. "You're gonna have my pictures on all the front pages...
EUROPEAN EXPERIENCES-Mabel Dodge Luhan-Harcourt, Brace...