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...story for Popolo d'ltalia of Milan, of which he was then editor. I was manager of the Paris bureau and was covering it for the United Press. At that time Mussolini was practically unknown outside Italy. He scurried around with the rest of us with notebook and pencil, gathering items from Lloyd George, Briand and Lord Riddell. None of us paid him any attention. Certainly none could have foreseen that in a few years he would be one of the world's outstanding figures. He had already started organizing the Fascists, but little was known of the organization abroad...
...years. For the last three years I have taken hardly anything else.* I came in with milk [he chuckled] and I guess I'll go out with it. It's the only balanced ration-balanced by the Great Chemist, who is far away." [He raised his stubby pencil over his head, toward the ceiling.] Will science tell us to eat less, as it has told us to drink less? "Eighty percent of our deaths are due to overeating. After the age of 21 a large variety and quantity of food is unnecessary. All those things crowd the stomach...
...Jenkins had heard his Courtroom reverberate to huge figures in dollars, steel, shares. He had heard the testimony of great steelmasters, of accountants. Few people expected that by last week he would have reached a decision. To the Court Clerk the Judge handed 19 pages of foolscap, written in pencil. To newsmen he gave two similar sheaves which he had carefully copied from the original, fearful of stenographic errors. It was still before 9 a. m. when the news was flashed from Youngstown that Cyrus Stephen Eaton had won, that he had been granted an injunction blocking the merger. When...
...Travelling Fellowship, has recently sent back from Spain a number of water color paintings now on exhibition in Robinson Hall Annex. Although most of the paintings are concerned with the Alcazar Gardens, Seville, there are numerous landscapes from Granada and Majorca. Supplementing this collection is a small exhibit of pencil sketches by Von Ingen of New York City, dealing with American park scenes...
...Author. Niven Busch Jr., 27, was born with a pencil in his mouth, wrote good English before he could talk sense. Famed as a Princeton undergraduate for his versifying facility, like many literary Princetonians he never graduated, left college to write for TIME, of whose staff he is still a member. He also writes for The New Yorker under a thin disguise. Sandy-haired, slow-moving, slangy, like many a worse writer, like few better, he talks newspaper jargon...