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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Connor is 81. He has seen, written, talked and done much. "Father of the House of Commons," he has been a Member of Parliament uninterruptedly since 1880, cinema censor of Great Britain, reporter, editor, publisher, author. Last week he announced the end of one of his many ventures. Said he, writing in T. P.'s & Cassell's Weekly. "This is the last number which will appear. I have struggled for a long time against ill-health and fatigue, but I find my health unequal to the demands...
Last year, racked with rheumatism, he said: "I think journalism is the worst of all professions. It is precarious, remuneration is very low, one's position is, as a rule, reduced by old age, and of all the brilliant things a journalist may write none will be remembered permanently. Although I have had some success in journalism. I agree with the verdict my friend, John Morley,* rendered when he spoke of me as having had a squandered life." Twinkling, he added: "Any man is a damned fool who can work in bed and doesn...
...Editor Crowell left the American, in came Editor Sumner Newton Blossom, onetime managing editor of the New York Daily News, editor of Popular Science Monthly. But he came not as chief editor. Said President Lee W. Maxwell of Crowell Co.: "The American will have no chief editor for the time being. The editor will doubtless emerge...
Birthday. Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England; in London. Age: 85. To celebrate, he published a 4,000-line, four-part poem entitled The Testament of Beauty, his first large work in 39 years. Of it, the London Times said: ". . . The outpouring of the accumulated wisdom, experience, scholarship and poetic craftsmanship of one of the richest and mellowest spirits of our time...
...delegates and more than 1,500 visitors attended the sixth annual convention of the Master Barbers' Association of America (700 nationwide chapters). Present, of-course, was far-sighted President Otto Ewert of Chicago. Early he struck the progressive note which was to dominate the convention. "It is necessary," said he, "to popularize the facial. Men may consider the facial effeminate. Once they thought the same of brushing their teeth." President Ewert's sentiments were promptly echoed by the barbers assembled. Said one: "Those of us who rely entirely on shaves and haircuts for existence must be ranked with...