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...administration. Hardly had the seconds exchanged a round of vituperation when the affair was brought abruptly to a halt (TIME. July 22). For each of the seconds had a second and he was Franklin Roosevelt. If Second-Second Roosevelt followed the ancient code he would merely stick a rapier into himself. Instead, last week, after the brawl was over, he announced the terms of an honorable settlement: Measure for Measure. With even-handed justice, the President found new jobs for Governor Pearson and Judge Wilson...
...spick & span brick blacksmith shop in a frowsy section of Long Island City. They were trailed by a carload of reporters, for the word had gone out that the elderly gentlemen, members of the Armor & Arms Club of New York, were about to forge a 16th Century rapier with all the ancient rites and traditions...
Next evening Critic Gilbert Gabriel of the New York American spied the disgusted playwright at a Broadway premiere. Funster Gabriel, whose cane conceals a gleaming rapier, leaped from his seat, pursued Mr. Rice up the aisle at the point of the rapier...
...days later MM. La Chambre and Renouvin met in a dawn-grey field near St. Malo. M. La Chambre, being the insulted one, had chosen the weapons: standard dueling rapiers with bell guards. The referee, famed Fencing Master Phillippe Cattiaux, held out his rapier and the combatants rested the needle points of their shivering blades on it. The referee dropped his rapier. Zing! Clang! M. La Chambre slashed M. Renouvin's blade aside, stuck M. Renouvin decisively in his working arm. A few seconds old, the duel was over. M. La Chambre was no assassin and M. Renouvin...
Elwyn Brooks ("Andy") White, the "E. B. W." who signs much of the fiction and light verse in The New Yorker. He writes many of the captions and taglines in the back of the book. More important, he is the anonymous author of the rapier-like "Notes & Comment" which leads off The New Yorker's famed "Talk of the Town," sometimes called the best column in Manhattan. Shy, gentle, melancholy "Andy" White, 35, was a newsman and adman before joining The New Yorker in 1926?just when Editor Ross needed him most. Five years ago he married The New Yorker...