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...When the S.S. President Cleveland slowed up at the International Date Line to take on the deep sea mail, lo and behold there were two copies of TIME which had passed the Cleveland waiting for me there to read en route to Manila...
...next copy of TIME was in the Cleveland mail which I opened in my Manila office...
...Dennis became managing editor of the Record (morning paper owned by the News). He sent one of the first correspondents to Cuba to cover the rebellion that preceded the Spanish-American War. At the Battle of Manila Bay Dennis' correspondent was John McCutcheon, later to win fame as the Chicago Tribune's cartoonist...
...hammer were the household effects of Admiral &; Mrs. George Dewey. No U. S. hero, not even Charles Augustus Lindbergh, was ever the object of more hysterical mob adulation than was the walrus-mustached old gentleman who as commander of the U. S. Asiatic Squadron sank the Spanish fleet in Manila Harbor, May Day, 1898. For exactly two years it lasted. Congress made George Dewey a full admiral, first since Porter. Dewey songs tinkled on every piano, roared from every barroom. New York gave him the first of its famed civic welcomes, with Edison bulbs spelling out WELCOME DEWEY...
...Division in the Argonne. South Carolina-born and socially inclined, he did much to revive the social life of Chicago's Fort Sheridan. With his wife and one of his daughters, Anne (who was last year voted the most beautiful girl at Smith College), he will sail for Manila next month...