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...concentrated on chemistry, like Fellow Dasher Conant, but after hitting the books with some success (he took his degree in three years), he decided that science was not his field. The most attractive job he could find was a place as a cub reporter on the Boston Transcript. He was just learning his way around when President Wilson called out the National Guard, ordered some of it to the Mexican border. A friend reminded John that he had joined Battery A a while before and that he'd better go. "So I did, but I don't really...
...Freddie rented a beard and paraded with the pickets. He also crusaded against Elmer ("Bones") Remmer, owner of San Francisco's three biggest gambling houses, and drove Bones out of business. (When offered a $500-a-month bribe to lay off, he hid a microphone and got a transcript of the offer; it made juicy reading...
...Rabelais, a biographer of Thomas Jefferson and Henry George. He wrote in an urbane, aloof style with an odd characteristic. At unpredictable points, caustic opinions on politics abruptly intruded, as if someone occasionally interrupted an hour of chamber music by reading well-written editorials from the Boston Evening Transcript. Editor Nock considered himself a radical...
Perhaps Americans ought to listen to the Moscow radio more. What they have been missing was disclosed this week by a monitored transcript of a Christmas broadcast, beamed in English to North America. A heavyhanded tale of Santa Claus and the FBI, the broadcast would make most U.S. citizens snicker. But after the snickers would come a little better sizing-up of the Soviet Communist mind...
...Andrew Jackson's ghostwriter and Postmaster General. Kendall usually stayed at the Astor House when he was in New York, a clue which sent Anderson on a futile search for the hotel register. He did learn, however, that in 1861 all hotel guests were reported in the Daily Transcript. The Yale library had a file-but the Feb. 19 issue was missing. In the New York Historical Society, Professor Anderson found the missing issue, which listed a J. Kendall among the Astor House guests. He thought J. Kendall might be a misprint for A. Kendall. Then he found that...