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...Francisco Examiner she is "Annie Laurie." Nearly 50 years a Hearstling, she dictates an average of nine articles a week-six "heart & home" pieces for the syndicate, three or more "Annie Laurie" columns for the Examiner. Much of her work is done from her bed. Over her bedroom mantel hangs a faded old photograph inscribed: "To my dear friend and associate, Winifred Black Bonfils, from her sincere admirer, William Randolph Hearst...
...Secretary, it is the War Department. George Henry Dern, good Democrat and Utah's onetime Governor, sits in the Secretary's office on the "War side" of the old State, War & Navy rookery on Pennsylvania Avenue. Onetime Secretary of War Jefferson Davis' clock ticks on the mantel behind him. Overhead in a case is the flag which draped Abraham Lincoln's coffin. In an anteroom is a comfortable couch where Secretary Dern refreshes himself with an occasional nap. In an office nearby sits John W. Martyn, the chief civil continuing officer of the War Department. Assistant...
...cornerstones that bear the name of James A. Wetmore, Acting Supervising Architect, he is proudest of the one under the new post office in his native Bath. He laid that one himself, in 1931. The trowel, suitably engraved, hangs over his mantel. He will take it with him to Coral Gables, Fla., where he plans to pass the rest of his days...
Nine years ago a certain Mr. Altman of Brooklyn visited an old colonial house purchased long before by his father and now ready for the wreckers. Prowling through the empty rooms he stopped and stared at a strange thing hanging over a mantel. Nearly a foot long and apparently mummified, it had two widespread, goatish feet, a curling tail, flaps of tissue extending from its body like wings, a grotesque caricature of a human face with plump cheeks, beady eyes, a pursed, smirking mouth...
...seat of Pretoria, the. Union administrative capital, 850 mi. northeast of Cape Town. Severest shocks were felt in Natal where brick houses cracked open, some collapsing. In Johannesburg, largest South African city (pop. 288,000) 40 mi. south of Pretoria, doors and windows rattled, bric-a-brac fell off mantel pieces and fearless white correspondents cabled "the natives were terrified...