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Apprehended in his Claverly Hall rooms by a posse of newspapermen, L. Esprit Gaulois, master of Cambridge illuminant, versed the opinion yesterday that "Gathering rosebuds while ye may should pay off come Valentine...
...even the President of the United States," Sweeney observed, "could got in to see that fellow." The only newspapermen who have any chance of talking to Parkhurst, he suggested, are Douglas Chandler and Robert Bost, two overseas newsmen charged with treason and broadcasting in the service of the enemy during the war. They are Federal prisoners closely held in the same wing...
...four reasons for the fiasco, the first of which your writer touched upon--"lack of interest by local commanders." Second, the ability of the I & E personnel themselves was inadequate. The War Department Circulars regarding the selection of I & E personnel prescribed men of professional training and caliber--lawyers, newspapermen, etc. I was flattered when selected, considering myself a green college undergraduate who hardly satisfied the prerequisites. When I arrived at Washington and Lee, however, I found my classmates were everything from butchers up, the majority of them being white-collar workers with a high school or a year...
...bars and French bistros alternate with English and Swedish restaurants. Most famed: P. J. ("Paddy") Clarke's saloon at 55th Street, enlivened by the stuffed figure of the original four-legged Paddy, who used to deliver buckets of beer to regular patrons; Tim Costello's, jampacked with newspapermen, its walls decorated with original Thurber drawings; the fabulously expensive Chambord (pompano and pheasant...
From Germany, and in the Army's custody, a couple of almost forgotten ex-newspapermen arrived in Washington, D.C. : for wartime broadcasts from Berlin, roly-poly Robert H. Best and hawklike Douglas Chandler were finally to be tried for treason...