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...bitterly vexed when he learned it was an ovation for President Wilson. Further evidence of his personal showmanship was his propensity for surrounding Character Belasco with the proper dramatic setting. Visitors at the studio above his theatre were shown his fireplace from the Alhambra, his chair made from a pew in a church at Stratford-on-Avon, his collection of 300 watches, knick-knacks and curiosities of all sorts. In his apartment in a quiet family hotel (the Gladstone) he had a miniature cathedral chancel in one of the closets. It is not likely that...
...field for it leads all competitors including Harvard, in the state-wide safety contest for automobile trucks. The group in which the college fleet of vehicles is entered comprises cars used for "cartage" transfer and storage. Other entrants are "The President and Fellows of Harvard College", Gorton-Pew Fisheries Company, Ltd., United States Post Office, half a dozen big express companies, several newspaper delivery fleets and many large mills and other industrial enterprises...
...prompted by the incident," wrote Editor Pew, "to revert again to the subject of press ethics." Editor Pew then quoted Article VI of the canons of the American Society of Newspaper Editors...
...dare assert," continued Editor Pew, that his [Lindbergh's] name and picture have been published in the press of the United States more times than that of any other individual in a similar period. I suppose his press linage throughout the universe is unequalled. Yet . . . everyone who has studied his nature has remarked his innate verecundity in personal relations...
Concluded Editor Pew: "If I may be pardoned for making a suggestion, it is that newspapermen who prize . . . the classic heroism and pathfinding of our young pioneer of the air should see in him less of the showman and more of the scientist...