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...elaborate dinners he gives in his home on swank Sheridan Circle. Sentimental, warmhearted, likable, democratic, he is president of Washington's Alfalfa Club (men's dining), onetime president of the Washington Community Chest. Still frail in health, his only hobby is collecting first editions, rare copies, manuscripts of English and U. S. literary works. Last week he acquired the manuscript of Longfellow's paean to honest poverty, "The Village Blacksmith...
...Lepanto, worked stoutly as an Algerine slave; with stout cheerfulness endured famine and nakedness and the world's ingratitude; and sitting in gaol, with one hand left him, wrote our joyfullest, and all but our deepest, modern book, and named it Don Quixote." Not a letter or a manuscript of Cervantes has survived, nothing but a few legal documents, "residuum of his continual poverty...
...Edward Artin '29, of Enfield, Ill, "proofread both manuscript and printer's proofs, and served on the prenuncistion staff...
When Publisher John Farrar received from Colonel Tweed in London the manuscript for Gabriel Over the White House, he sensed a good thing. Roosevelt was in the thick of his 1932 campaign. The Bonus Army had set a new pattern for direct action at Washington. The U. S. was groaning and growling for a political miracle to lift it from the depths. The young red-headed Manhattan publisher had the Tweed manuscript extensively reworked by a U. S. hack for a pittance and Gabriel Over the White House became startlingly prophetic of the New Deal's early endeavors...
German comedian. His enormous Gladstone collars generally have the patina of an ancient manuscript. He hates beds and regular meals, cooks what he wants when he is hungry and sleeps on the attic floor rolled up in a blanket. To counteract his habit of forgetting things his watch, his pocketbook, fountain pen, keys, etc. are attached to his clothes by an intricate system of safety pins and odd bits of string. He knows Goethe's Faust by heart, writes and speaks Latin fluently, discourses familiarly on the philosophy of Nietzsche, Spengler, hates beer...