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Nurses in the American Hospital in Paris told U. S. correspondents that a woman named Marguerite Clark had been brought into the hospital with head bandaged, bruises on her face, was lodged secretly in the maternity wing. Chicago Tribune Newshawk Edmond Taylor slipped into her room, recognized "Marguerite Clark" as Gladys Wallis Insull, wife of Runaway Samuel Insull, reported her face unmarked. Daily Mrs. Insull, a beauteous ingenue in the '90s, has a bowl of milk brought to her room, dips her fingers in it for 15 minutes to keep her nails from cracking...
Said Lord Lionel Hallam Tennyson, grandson of the Poet Laureate, and one-time Captain of the All England Cricket XI, to a Hollywood newshawk: "Ha! Let's leave the family's poetry to old Alfred. I don't go in for poetry myself, but I do a bit of writing. As a matter of fact, with due respect to Lord Alfred, I've just published a book entitled From Verse to Worse...
...crater. Sometimes he has traveled alone, visiting missions, mushing 1,600 mi. with only frozen beans for food. He was the first man to reach the top of Shishaldin Volcano on Unimak Island, the first to make a winter ascent of towering Katmai. "Gosh," he once chuckled to a newshawk, "all the rest of these exploring babies are glad enough if they make one 'first,' and here I am with three...
...Hearst newshawk interviewed Commissioner Schorenstein as follows...
...French-Irish mother, his mixed inheritance has well prepared him for the kaleidoscopic environment from which he is emerging as an able guide to the patchwork of the U. S. scene. At 14 he ran away from home, was hobo, circus hand, cabin-boy on a whaler, sheepherder, newshawk. When he was private secretary to the Warden of Iowa's State Prison, and editing the prison magazine, one of the convicts reproved him for writing a sentimental story about a crook. Williamson took heed...