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...time-honored tradition of Congress is: "never do today what you can put off till tomorrow." Even the most earnest Congressional freshman learns in jig-time that almost nothing in a democracy is actually urgent business.* Many a Congressional oldster has become a solid statesman by eternally delaying legislation...
...friend Poultney Bigelow of Malden-on-Hudson, N. Y., who used to romp with him in a German school when Poultney's father was U. S. Minister to France. No war could break their friendship, which has extended to their families (see cut), and every year Oldster Bigelow goes to visit Oldster Hohenzollern at Doom. Last week, after having trouble getting a passport ("I told President Roosevelt I would ha'nt him"), Poultney Bigelow sailed from Manhattan. Before sailing he gave the press some quotes from a letter of the former Kaiser, explaining discreetly that...
...When he was nearly 40 he took a tree trunk, carved from it a nude figure that he liked very much. Thereupon Aristide Maillol became a sculptor. At 78 he is dean of them all. Last week a show of his work opened in Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery, demonstrated Oldster Maillol's extraordinary talent for imbuing sculpture with both vitality and repose...
Wearing a short circular skirt and woolen shirt, her strokes as powerful as ever and her reflexes as quick, Oldster Sears amazed the galleries with her extraordinary stamina and agile court coverage, amused them with her rambunctious mannerisms and screaming but good-natured queries to the referee-as though he were way down in the cellar tending the furnace...
...Pelham, N. Y. last week a tired-looking, mild-mannered oldster of 74 sat at lunch with an explorer whom he had never before met-Sir Hubert Wilkins, who has dreamed for years of traveling under the ice to the North Pole in a submarine. The two talked of the trials & tribulations of men fighting the Arctic...