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...place of our present 48-state hodge-podge, and the setting up of a Supreme Court devoted to family law. "The establishment," he points out patiently, " of the system that most Western countries have found workable and indispensable." The Boston press ruckus came when he answered a matronly sob-sister with conjectures that, yes, a man ought to be able to find a wife by 25, and should have several children--in line with the idea of becoming a good citizen. The result was most horrid--banner headlines and a front-page picture...
...Murders to Heart Mends. Elizabeth Gilmer got her biggest break in 1901, when William Randolph Hearst lured her to Manhattan. She carried a wad of "get-home money" in her stocking, for her first six weeks in the big city. But she stayed, to become the greatest sob sister of her day. From the Harry K. Thaw trial to the Hall-Mills case, no big murder was complete without her. In 1920 she tired of it, told her city editor that if she ever covered another murder it would be his, and flounced off to New Orleans to concentrate...
With a faint, abstracted smile, like a man trying to remember his first girl, Liang plucked out clear notes with the fingernails of his right hand; made them whine and sob with his left. Those who gave up listening for familiar chords (and trying to ignore the weird half tones which almost invariably followed) were rewarded with a dreamy sense of Confucius' "peace among the people...
Fortnight ago San Quentin's doors swung open and ex-Convict Stiles, who had tried to keep his mother from knowing about his prison sentence, found him self surrounded by eager sob-sisters and reporters. He was also the reluctant hero of a mushy radio program which stressed his San Quentin record. To add to his troubles, the Navy seemed reluctant to sponsor his "invention." The National Research Council was looking into it, but thought the hand did not differ materially from several others of the same type...
...Crime & Punishment, Death & the General, The Wilted Flowers. . . . You editorialize with: "There was as yet no sign of confidence from the Man of the Year . . . that anything could be done. . . . The feeling was abroad that . . . even presidents [were] mere foam flecks on the tide. In such a world," you sob, "who dared be optimistic...