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...victor's sister Florence, aged 16, and young brother Sylvan, were prevailed upon by the photographer of a Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet, to pose, in bellicose attitude, Florence wearing boxing gloves. Young Silverman's father said: "Somebody had to lick the President's son, I guess. I'm pleased to have the honor to be the father of the boy who did it,, but other boys in the United States could do the same." A promoter in Manhattan offered young Silverman $5,000 for three matches in Manhattan. Two days later, one William Hughes of Waterbury, Conn., drubbed Silverman...
...Lady Diana edited Femina, a sheetlet with which admirers said she made and unmade fashions and politicians. The year before she had won Queen Mary's consent to her entering the "flickers" (cinema). A husband was by no means a whole career for her. She talked of self-expression, said the cinema was "the most real form of romance modern life expresses." When invited to play the Madonna, which she alternates with the Nun in The Miracle, she "felt almost as though I had a vocation to act the part...
John F. Hylan was Mayor of New York until 1926. At present he is on a vacation in Florida. After a time he plans to resume the practice of law. Meanwhile the New York Evening Graphic, Macfadden sheetlet, is publishing some of his memoirs. In an installment last week he described the visit of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians to Manhattan...
...last week scandalmongering, the Graphic (Manhattan), Bernarr Macfadden's gumchewers' sheetlet par excellence, dragged the memory of Mr. Brandegee from the grave? began to publish a serial story of his "Wrecked Love," "Sad Secret" that led to the "Dramatic Death of Political Genius...
...Tribune piled up more profits than ever in its highly prosperous career. Captain Patterson, taking a hint from Lord Northcliffe ("New York's simply begging for a picture newspaper"), decided that the bulldog needed a tail. He started the New York Daily News, gum-chewer's sheetlet, which began to wag at a great rate. In three years its circulation was 400,000. "When it reaches a million," said Mr. Patterson, "I shall go to New York for good...