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...Finally pressmen sought out James Pershing, brother of John, at his office in the Straus Building, Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. James regarded the questioners with a quizzical smile: "My brother let his teeth go without attention for some time, as one will. ... I suppose that his general condition too may have been weakened by the oppressive climate of Tacna-Arica, of which he has often spoken. ... I feel sure that my brother's condition is not actually alarming...
...pressmen departed and flipped a coin with themselves. Some trumpeted, "He let his teeth go"; others, "Not actually alarming." Impartial observers opined that the rumor of a complete deadlock at Tacna-Arica was growing weaker...
...scheduled to open Jan. 9- the annual National Automobile Show. Entering, pressmen found the lobby of Grand Central Palace transformed into a Venetian Doge's reception parlor. Artists had been busied for weeks with the panoramas. Trees and pottery had been imported, and even special linoleum with grains in imitation of Italian woods, was sent abroad for. In a court of the arts and sciences, immense statues brooded among Etruscan groves...
...Leviathan docked at Manhattan last week, pressmen surged up the gangplank and surrounded Mr. Henry Morgenthau Jr., son of the famed War-time U. S. Ambassador to Turkey. With pencils poised they requested intimate news of Henry Morgenthau Sr., now circling the globe and known to be somewhere in the Near East. Would young Mr. Morgenthau vouchsafe a few words anent his distinguished parent? Speedily the pencils began to race as Morgenthau Jr. spoke...
...chief requisites for an entertaining talker are an exuberant vanity, a wit modified by the ability to criticize a remark before it is made, and above all something to talk about. Joseph Pennell, famed etcher, has entertained a great many people-great authors whose books he has illustrated, pressmen who have interviewed him, artists who have asked him to dinner, ladies' clubs before which he has lectured on his own life and works. Thousands of sincere admirers have said to him: "Oh, Mr. Pennell, you do talk so splendidly you really ought to put it all down...