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...rings on his fingers, carries an ash-plant cane which he twirls and twirls. Timid, he fears dogs and thunderstorms, likes cats; a short "beard covers the scar where a dog bit him 43 years ago. He has very small feet, of which he is proud. Well-known to newspapermen, Author Joyce has never been interviewed. (Author Djuna Barnes "interviewed" him, unbeknownst to himself, published the piece in a recent Vanity Fair...
Surprised indeed were newspapermen when, six months ago, the Chicago Daily News whose late Editor Victor Fremont Lawson with Melville Elijah Stone developed the Associated Press, enhanced its foreign news with A. P.'s "opposition." United Press. Last week came another event. Simultaneous with the announcement that United Press had extended its service into its 18th language (Icelandic )', the New York Herald Tribune made known that henceforth it would use full U. P. service, domestic and foreign. With its own overseas bureaus and the A. P. and U. P. the Herald Tribune was putting itself in a position...
Having already been besieged by a swarm of eager newspapermen and photographers during the whole day. Amos'n Andy appeared in no way the "funny men" that a popular conception holds stage comedians to be off stage, when a CRIMSON reporter finally gained entrance to their dressing room last night. As a matter of fact, the curly-haired young man who finally escorted him down the stairs and along the long corridor under the Metropolitan theatre seemed well on the way to reversing the situation by interviewing the reporter, for by the time they had reached the dressing room...
Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico and (selfstyled) "ambassador to the Caribbean," gets help from newspapermen on the tyro Spanish in which, with dogged goodwill, he addresses his charges when- ever he can. Last week one newspaperman could not forbear to relay to the U. S. two of the Governor's better "breaks" in recent Spanish-speeches...
...produced one thin official volume, October and other poems. Unlike the late great Laureate Tennyson, he has refused to vamp up verses for patriotic occasions and royal birthdays. When he visited the U. S. in 1924 and refused to commemorate the event in rhyme, a Manhattan tabloid carried what newspapermen call the classic headline of all time: KING'S CANARY WILL NOT CHIRP...