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...Whence this scar, he will not tell, except to say he did not get it playing baseball...
...South American Telegraph Co., later merged by him into All America Cables, Inc. In 1925 he achieved a measured prominence by stoutly championing a receivership for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, permitting himself at that time one of his few essentially quotable phrases: ". . . An open wound demands attention. A scar does...
...killed him. A cousin in Brooklyn's "Five Points" gang hid him away from the police. When the stranger recovered, young Al was already at work on small "jobs." In a Coney Island fight he was slashed across the left cheek, though later he like to insist that the scar came from War service with the Lost Battalion...
...Poor most of his life, he is now subsidized by an anonymous Englishwoman. He dresses neatly, always wears green ties, sports heavy rings on his fingers, carries an ash-plant cane which he twirls and twirls. Timid, he fears dogs and thunderstorms, likes cats; a short "beard covers the scar where a dog bit him 43 years ago. He has very small feet, of which he is proud. Well-known to newspapermen, Author Joyce has never been interviewed. (Author Djuna Barnes "interviewed" him, unbeknownst to himself, published the piece in a recent Vanity Fair...
...that the height of scholarship can be reached at home. Thirty or forty years ago, the home of the more important muses was generally considered to be in Germany. Today, the scene has changed, but it is still on the other side of the Atlantic. Instead of the Heidelberg scar, one must now have the Oxford accent. At present English influence on our educational methods is almost as potent as the German once was. We notice the trend, very obvious despite the modifications and adaptations, right here in Cambridge. One truth seems evident. No system can remain the same. They...