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...Catholic as soon as he was of age. He became an Irish rebel instead. When Santayana saw him ten years later, he was a tragic spectacle. Johnson still looked very young, "but pale, haggard and trembling. He stood by the fireplace, with a tall glass of whiskey and soda at his elbow and talked wildly of persecution. The police, he said, were after him everywhere. . . . He quivered with excitement, hatred and imagined terrors. . . . When at last he found his glass empty [he] left without saying goodnight. I never saw him again...
...Emporia boy & girl wage earners (median age: 16) worked at 62 different jobs, mostly the usual peacetime ones of selling, waiting on table, house and farm work, soda-jerking, tending filling stations...
When he sits down over a drink with Winston Churchill (scotch & soda) and Joseph Stalin (vodka), Franklin Roosevelt (old fashioned) will have at least two strong cards up his sleeve. One of them was put there by Senator Arthur Vandenberg's strong speech on U.S. participation in world politics (TIME, Jan. 22). The other was provided last week by the new members of the Senate...
...surface (Winthrop's so-called "backside") is inaccessible to bombardment from the earth. To blast these regions I have designed a cannon combining the better features of a trench mortar and a slow curve. Consisting of a curved barrel mounted on a base equipped with weather bureau, barracks, soda fountain and bond booth, its aim and fire power is controlled by the formula given on the enclosed drawing...
Camping in the Catsldlls. He meant to be a surgeon, but hard times hit his father, a Brooklyn dress cutter, and Danny went to work as a soda jerker. He also tried a job as an insurance man. Then he became a professional life-of-the-party at a summer camp in the Catskill Mountains. When he wasn't cheering up the guests, he washed dishes and waited on table. He worked the summer camps for four seasons. During the winter he pestered Broadway producers, and lived on his summer earnings...