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...Treasury's Bureau of Industrial Alcohol announced the discovery of a new denaturant: alcotate. It will not kill or blind but will render industrial alcohol exceedingly nauseous to the taste. Director Doran said that alcotate's aroma is not unlike "spoiled eggs and garlic." One newshawk took a sip of it, made faces, said he thought it tasted like a compound of ether and benzine. Remarked Chemist Doran: "It's not as bad as some of the stuff you've been drinking...
...years a newshawk and war correspondent, notably for the Chicago Tribune, Floyd Phillips Gibbons climbed to the first rank of reporters. He won fame of the sort that comes to a No. 1 newsman; but not many outside his profession and the readers of the Tribune and Liberty knew a year and a half ago who Floyd Gibbons was. Then he went into radio broadcasting. Last week, famed Fastest Talker Floyd Gibbons returned to newspaper work as a circulation drawing-card. His column, "Floyd Gibbons Speaking?" began daily appearances in 42 newspapers served by famous Features Syndicate...
Author. Author Zona Gale (people joked when she married William Llywelyn Breese) was born in Portage, Wis., 56 years ago, still lives there. Once an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin, she has served on the Board of Regents. Once a newshawk (for Milwaukee papers and New York World) she is now newsworthy. In 1911 she won first prize in a short-story contest in which there were 15,000 entries. In 1921 her play Miss Lulu Belt won the Pulitzer Prize. Last month she publicly forgave a plagiarist (TIME. Sept. 15). Other books: Preface to a Life, Faint Perfume...
Instantly Papa bristled. He too had to fight under the irascible Tiger of France. "Foch," he snapped, "was right! Clemenceau-" but the Marshal did not finish. He knew a newshawk was listening. He has vowed that his memoirs shall not be published until after he is dead. Therefore he slipped back into his character of "Papa," concluded urbanely as snippets of whiskers fell all around, "Yes, Foch was right, but [shrugging his sheet-covered shoulders] soldiers and politicians are not always made by the Good God to get along with each other...
...Author. Lowell Thomas, 38, lecturer, journalist, traveler, onetime professor of oratory, was born in Ohio but spent his boyhood in Cripple Creek, Col., as miner, rancher, realtor, newshawk. During the War he was with Allenby's army in Palestine, with famed Col. Thomas Ed- ward Lawrence in Arabia. (Say partisans of Lawrence: it was partly to correct misstatements of Thomas' With Lawrence in Arabia that Lawrence wrote his Revolt in the Desert.) After the War he accom- panied the Prince of Wales on a tour of India. Air-minded, he wrote the official account of the U. S. Army...