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...Washington A. P. to press agentry: Lionel Charles Probert, onetime locomotive fireman left the head of the bureau to become publicity man for the Brothers Van Sweringen and Vice President of their Erie R. R. While covering the Senate oil scandals investigation, Bond E. Geddes dropped his pencil abruptly to become the press agent for Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair. E. Ross Bartley covered Charles Gates Dawes' Vice Presidential campaign in 1924 so effectively that the Vice President made him his Chief Secretary at the capitol...
...marble, on the hills of Attica and Sicily. When Francis I of France wanted palaces designed, he summoned Leonardo da Vinci. George Washington, after the fever of a war, set out to build a capital in a wilderness. He employed a Frenchman,* Pierre Charles L'Enfant, to blue-pencil the streets and domes that lobbyists and starlings (see p. 50) would later infest. Just so, last week, the Supreme Economic Council of Soviet Russia, represented by Amtorg Trading Corp. in Manhattan, signed contracts to retain, the Detroit architectural firm of Albert Kahn, Inc., as consulting architects for two years...
Vienna is a city of specialists. Its directories are filled with the names of psychoanalysts, gynecologists, ichthyologists, bacteriologists, geologists, botanists. But unique among Vienna's specialists is Professor Dr. Heinrich Hoefflinger, historian. For years he has burrowed with prying pencil among the secret archives of European Royalty, in the monumental task of discovering and listing all the illegitimate children of all the royal houses of Europe, a work which has earned him among his Viennese students the entirely unofficial degree of B. N. (Baccalarius Nothorum, "Bachelor of Bastardy...
...class at the university. In form the critique was composed of 25 questions to be applied to individual courses, instructors, methods of presentation. To each query there was a set of replies (from three to 17), complimentary, indifferent, derogatory, which the student might signify by a scratch of his pencil...
Every day in Vienna men and women gather in groups of 50 at the house of an uncouth old fellow who dresses like a farmer. Standing respectfully in a circle, they strip to the waist, permit him to approach and stroke them with the tip of an "electric pencil." It crackles softly as it passes over their flesh. Last week the Austrian Government announced that Herr Valentin ("Electric Pencil') Zeileis had just paid his tax on an income of $30,000 for last year. Not exactly a charlatan, Herr Zeileis does not claim to cure the people he strokes...