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...numbed and thrilled at Elwood. Before him last week, in the Memorial Park near his wife's home at Rushville, were 10,000 townsmen and countryfolk who simply wanted a look at a candidate whom many of them already knew. He could talk to them without forethought, manuscript, microphones; and he talked at his easy best...
Jackson asked Trotsky for criticism of a manuscript. Amiable Host Trotsky invited him into the house. They entered, Jackson in the lead, carrying a topcoat over his arm. In the dining room Natalie Sedova Trotsky met them, and, Russian-fashion, offered the guest a glass of tea. Jackson asked for water, drank it without disturbing the topcoat slung over his left arm. Then Trotsky and Jackson passed into the study. Jackson did not put down the topcoat...
Denied access to Cinecomedian Charles Chaplin, who had returned his manuscript unopened, would-be Cinemauthor Noel Jones, 23, fell upon Chaplin's office switchboard, started taking it apart...
...gossip column the next morning; for that reason, the Secretary of the Treasury rates higher as a friend than as a policy-making official. New York's Appeals Court Judge Sam Rosenman, a Roosevelt crony since 1929, is half friend, half counselor: he may arrive with the rough manuscript of a Presidential speech, stay to gossip about old times in Albany, or to ease some useful protege into a key Federal spot. Another intimate of long standing, though he seldom appears in the public eye, is Mr. Roosevelt's onetime (1925-33) law partner, Basil O'Connor...
Abend produced the manuscript of a book about Frederick Townsend Ward, U. S. soldier-adventurer who once led a Chinese army to put down a rebellion, died 78 years ago. The Japanese took charge of the manuscript (representing nine months' work by Author Abend), ransacked the apartment, wrenched out the telephone, gave Abend's head another cuff, his arm another twist, departed...