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...artillery battery in the U. S. Army), shipping after the War, exploration in China, hunting in India, books about the Far East-Son Kermit could follow the pattern of Father's life but he could not quite get its spirit. Last week it became plain that Kermit Roosevelt, plump and 50, had followed Father's fading footsteps out of the U. S. He had signed up as an officer in the British Army, thus automatically renouncing the U. S. citizenship of the son of the U. S.'s most rambunctious Presidential citizen. Said...
...Kuhn's search for sympathy. Pretty, brown-haired, brown-eyed Mrs. Virginia Overshiner Patterson Stark Seeger Gilbert Kahn Cogswell, "The Georgia Peach," 32 years old, seven times wed, winner of an Atlantic City beauty contest, was one from whom Fritz Kuhn sought sympathy. But next came honey-haired, plump Mrs. Florence Camp, and the climax of Fritz Kuhn's courtroom distress...
Tactful, 43-year-old Dr. Davison hopes to turn the compromise between the hospital and the A.M.A. into a lasting peace. Chicagoans, weary of squabbles and political scandal, hoped that he would plump for a bigger appropriation to buy more bedpans, provide more ward space, keep beds out of corridors, put up a new building to relieve overcrowding...
...conceded to be one of the world's finest. Last summer at the tony Berkshire Festival near Stockbridge, Mass., another remarkable Negro voice! this time a soprano, threatened to claim a share of Contralto Anderson's laurels. The voice was Dorothy Maynor's (TIME, Aug. 21), plump, Norfolk-born daughter of a Methodist minister, who had been studying for several years with courtly Manhattan Vocal Coach John Alan Haughton. The picked audience of musicians and critics who heard her run the gamut from Wagnerian hallelujahs to coloratura tinkletones spoke of her as a native Flagstad...
Prohibition, an experiment noble in purpose, was about to begin. Midnight on Jan. 16, 1920, it went into effect. Five months later, guns barked and drilled plump Diamond Jim Colosimo dead as a herring in his own restaurant. The murder was a clue to the sudden bustle in the underworld. Colosimo, owner of brothels, had tried to bite off too much of the new business in illicit booze. That killing set the pattern for many more...