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...Harvard and my father was a Democratic United States senator from California. In one of my rare regular vacations, or one of My FREQUENT ENFORCED VACATIONS from College, I went to Washington and my father took me to see . . . etc." --W. R. Hearat, from the true words of the prophet in the Boston American, October 26. We always take such modesty from Mr. Hearst with large lumps of salt. It is interesting to speculate on how absence from Harvard does not make its heart grow fonder...
Chosen "Queen of His Court of Love and Beauty until his coming again" by the Veiled Prophet, whose identity is traditionally kept secret even by local newspapers, at the ceremonious 54th annual Veiled Prophet Ball in St. Louis, was Jane Alva Johnson, 19, daughter of Vice President Andrew W. Johnson of International Shoe Co. Present at the coronation was Prince Louis Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, Ford employe, second son of the ex-Crown Prince, who commented: "It is a long time since I have witnessed such scenes...
BODYING forth the shape of things to come in the dream history of Dr. Phillip Raven must have been the most delightful of tasks to Mr. H. G. Wells. In it he had the joy of the prophet Isaiah in providing a doom for all his enemies, and in peopling a heaven with his chosen. The man of science, and the engineer, and the technician will form a holy trinity to rule this heaven on earth of A.D. 2105, and all will dwell on earth happily forever after...
...week ago the Harvard correspondent of a Boston newspaper predicted that the reticence of F. D. Roosevelt, Jr. '37, however admirable, might prove disastrous. The prophet proved a very oracle, for Boston's press, from the saffron Post and Globe to the blue-nosed Transcript, have exhibited a record case of jaundice in their deliberate attempts to set the stage for a good, gaudy, front page streamer exploitation...
...Cassandra, but an increasingly chatty one, Prophet Wells fills 431 pages with his latest, most garrulous forecast...