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From her press agent, subsequent fragments of the Shotwell saga appear...
...cranium than was Gilligan, who recovered in a minute or so. Just before swooning the plucky Cadet signal-caller is alleged to have said "Leave us sit down a minute, Tommy." We will not go bail for its absolute authenticity, but it is a nice little addition to the saga; and if true, it goes to prove once more that history repeats itself. Tommy Loughran, out on his feet in his recent fisticuff with "Boston Jack" Sharkey, is reported to have said "Leave us sit down a minute, Jack". Like Bowman...
Author Hurst's latest contribution to the heterogeneous U. S. saga has to do mainly with a family of Raricks upon whom life brings many blessings in the shape of a chain of 5? & 10? stores. Little weazened Father Rarick acquires the happy faculty of buying hairnets and celluloid balls low and selling them higher builds a 79-story monument to himself, misunderstands his family. His pampered, poetical son, Avery, commits suicide at college because, "it was too much." Mother Rarick bitterly tries to suck romance out of a surreptitious affair with another woman's gigolo, Ramond...
...work of making a doctor out of him. She succeeded with her ?1,000 legacy and her advice, which he followed, that he substitute paying patients for charity ones. Society, the married state and the world outside Roper's Row claimed Chris Hazzard. Thus ends the saga of a man reared by his mother, raised by his wife. Author Deeping, whose Roper's Row bears some slight hero-resemblance to Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, writes with experience of medicine, which he practiced before and during the World War. Deeping's previous Sorrell...
Peculiar was the newspaper treatment of the Graustein-Patton marriage. Here was surely a saga of romance without a trace of scandal. Here was modern Manhattan's version of the Prince and Cinderella-a syncopated setting for an ageless theme. Yet the story was announced (two months after the wedding) in Zit's Weekly, theatrical trade-paper. Later the tabloids carried it. But solid, standard papers-Times, World, Herald Tribune, Sim, Post-ignored the week's-and one of the year's-greatest human interest story...