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...Ingalls won pitching honors from the other eight moundsmen Coach Chauncey took with him, in the Georgetown game, and Al Collwell shone as an ace batwielder, rising to the height of his form in the game against Morristown to make four runs and six hits out of six times...
...days later Beals's uncertainty shone even more brightly in an interview with swart, little Strong Man Fulgencio Batista. "I can never become President," said this onetime Cuban Army sergeant. "The people cannot be deprived of their politics. But if we were to hold elections soon they could not beimpartial. Such elections would merely appear to be a maneuver to defraud the will of the people. I believe in the fullest democracy, but at times it is out of the question. I do not believe in dictatorship, yet some peoples need good dictatorship. . . . We must buy back some...
...outside the Times office that Louis Wiley shone. He was everywhere. At civic and social functions he was the Times. He represented the institution ably, and he loved it. He was a mainstay of the New York Advertising Club, never seemed to weary of speaking at luncheon clubs and banquets. Did the students of Hobart College, or the Advertisers' Club of Davenport, Iowa, or the International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers, or the inmates of Welfare Island prison want Mr. Wiley to talk to them? Mr. Wiley would talk. Publicity loving, he had copies of his speeches sent...
...chorus shone in the radium number making unusual effects with painted hands. As burlesque queens, they also were convincing and their stomachs are bound to amuse audiences...
Back home, and back to the Lieutenant-Coloneley with which he entered the War, "Doug" MacArthur shone in the social firmament of post-War Washington. He entered the competition for the hand of vivacious Louise Cromwell, step-daughter of potent Edward T. Stotesbury, and won. General Pershing's aide lost, which did not ease the friction which still exists between the Chief of Staff and the retired General of the Armies. Known as the "Kid General" during the War, MacArthur was given command first of the Fourth Corps Area, then of the Third, a time-killing process necessary before...