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...Rice, Jr., 15-6, 15-8, 15-13; N. S. Glidden, Harvard, defeated R. C. Bray, 15-7, 15-18, 15-9, 18-15; J. Cooke, Newton Center, defeated C. Polle, 13-15, 15-11, 10-15, 15-12, 18-13; L. A. Breckinridge, Harvard, defeated P. Stoddard...
...like all his leading New York contemporaries except Heywood Broun, no native New Yorker. In 1903 he inherited a colyum, "A Little About Everything" in the Chicago Journal. Next year he went to the New York Evening Mail to conduct a feature named, by Publisher Henry L. Stoddard, "Always in Good Humor." When in 1913 he transferred to the Tribune, he thought up his heading "The Conning Tower" to be non committal, "so that whatever I printed would not seem incongruous." The Tower was transplanted in 1922 to the World, where it shared the feature page with Heywood Broun...
...Camera's Eye, brief scraps of autobiographical reminiscence, picks out quick scenes, quickly vanished, from these 17 years. The main story tells the lives of five people whose lives gradually converge: Mac, wobbly (I. W. W.) linotyper; Janey, Washington stenographer; J. Ward Moorehouse, "public relations counsel"; Eleanor Stoddard, Chicago pseudartist; Charley Anderson, mechanic from Fargo, N. Dak. And here and there, in a kind of chorus to the whole action, are prose-poem biographies of big men of the day-written half like news paper obituaries, half like Whitman poems: Eugene Victor Debs, "Big Bill'' Haywood, Luther...
Founders: Stableowner John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, Publisher Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, Poloists Thomas Hitchcock and Louis E. Stoddard, Stableowner Joseph E. Widener, Lord Stalbridge (onetime M. F. H. The Fernie, England), Sir Edward Curre of Wales, Yeastmaker Julius Fleischmann, Editor Richard E. Danielson of The Sportsman...
...brilliant, like those crystal chandeliers." Said he of Springfield: "It's an old middle western town, one-third African, full of tradition and swarming with neighbors willing to tell my [new young] wife where my mother kept the mousetrap and where she hung the view of Venice." Poet Stoddard King of Spokane wrote farewell verses...