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High in a Manhattan office building is the Havana Post's new news bureau. No newshawks rush in and out. No telegraph instruments chatter. Its one-man staff-stubby, genial, bespectacled Carl Chandlee Dickey, onetime Columbia journalism instructor, an editor of World's Work, Mc-Clure's-has in fact little to do with the Havana Post. His function is to lure more U. S. tourists, more U. S. capital to Cuba.* His method: to send writers and artists to Havana. There magnetic Publisher Carl Byoir takes them in hand, makes them see everything, turns them loose...
...Washington, D. C., there is, however, a young man who is devoting his life to picture collecting and propaganda. He is Duncan Phillips, tall, slender son of the late Major D. Clinch Phillips, Pittsburgh manufacturer (glass). For eleven years young Phillips has been owner of a one-man museum of modern...
...were added unto. From Banker Edward R. Stettinius, from the late Morton F. Plant of New London came schoolhouses and dormitories. Mrs. Frederic E. Lewis of Ridgefield gave a gymnasium. Mr. O saw to it that his students used chapel, schoolhouses and gymnasium faithfully and fruitfully. His was a one-man school...
...State Penitentiary at Canon City, Colo., where a deadly, guard-killing outbreak took place (TIME, Oct. 14). Less pleasant also is the Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., last summer's fourth rioter, where Warden T. B. White has had to pack convicts by twos and threes into one-man cells, stuff them by scores into cell-house basements...
Yale could not regard Maryland as easy after what happened last year (Maryland 6, Yale 0), but never did the Elis show so clearly what a one-man team they are this year. With a lead of 13, shifty little Albie Booth sat down to rest. Maryland promptly tied the score, was set to win when the whistle blew. Yale 13, Maryland...