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...wildest of chance deflected Laurence into newspapering. After graduation from Harvard ('12), he earned a law degree at Boston University and went to New York. There, a well-connected Harvard classmate took him to a party at the Long Island home of Herbert Bayard Swope, publisher of the old New York World. A popular party game, "Ask Me Another," was in progress, and to the mortification of the host, who fancied himself as the reigning champion, Laurence won. "Who are you-and why?" demanded Swope of the interloper and offered him a reporter's job on the World...
...with missionary zeal worthy of the Gideon Bible Society. Company executives find them in their in boxes-a kind of corporate present-cum-hint. U.S. Steel ordered some; Young & Rubicam, the advertising agency, bought 2,500 copies; the entire Cleveland Symphony Orchestra is doing the exercises, as is the Swope Ridge Home for the Aged in Kansas City...
...Ross EDWARDS Swope Park Baptist Church Kansas City...
...Woollcott of "a morning-glory vine climbing a pole." He was one of the deadliest pot rakers of the most famous seated gathering since King Arthur's, the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club; and when he failed to prosper, he beleaguered Heywood Broun, Harpo Marx, Herbert Bayard Swope and the rest with puns: "I fold my tens and silently steal away," or, apropos of nothing important, "One man's Mede is another man's Persian...
Though solicitors are still bringing in small donations, it is unlikely that the total will top $24,000, David A. Swope 63, treasurer for the Drive, said yesterday...