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...Berry still higher in his rank with the two greatest newspaper proprietors of England. Both these men chance to be in the U. S. at present. They are: 1) Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere (Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Evening News), brother of the late and greatest British news titan, Viscount Northcliffe; and 2) William Mawell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook (Daily Express and Evening Standard), a self-made Canadian, still sometimes referred to as "that bounder", but generally accorded the respect due a man who has made a cool £1,000,000 in business and then "retired" to enjoy...
...former disastrous attempts to practice the mysterious art of twirling a horse hide pellet. For eight innings CRIMSON runners could make no progress on the sodden base paths of the Soldiers Field diamond. Then the storm broke. CRIMSON fury burst forth with all the tremendous energy of a roused Titan tearing in shreds the bond cast about him by the hands of a pigmy tribe. It even went back and gathered force from the disappointing (though courteous) tie played with the Princetonian cohorts some week or more...
...vigourous and mercilessly sure in his judgment of the world into which he was born, that of Huysmans and Wilde and Anatole France, a world in which avarice and hatred have been more obvious than usual, a world tired and emasculated, "decadent." Against this he has struggled, like a "Titan," as the jacket puts it. Probably he felt much freer in writing "Mein Weg als Deutcher und Jude." This propagandizing and sociologizing mars all his work except the "World's Illusion," for in the three years to come the critical stage will no longer be the same critical stage...
...doings of little countries have a peculiar interest for the people of the United States. Secure in our giant strength and steadiness of government, we stand like a Titan watching with amusement the troubles of the minor states, forgetting that for four long years in the '60s the rest of the world watched daily for news of the destruction of this young republic...
When Death came to Felix Dzerzhinsky he was in the midst of a campaign to reorganize and educate industrially the whole body of Soviet workers (TIME, July 19). Perhaps only he possessed the granite will and the steel-trap tenacity requisite for. this titan's task. Than his death, no heavier loss to economic Russia can be imagined...