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...different exit had been made by White House newshawks after one of the President's regular press conferences a week before. Then they were in anything but good humor and straggled through the lobby of the Executive Offices muttering audibly to one another the name of one Richard Waldo. What the President had said to them was "in committee of the whole" (off the record) but by last week the record was publicly apparent...
Richard H. Waldo, 58, an oldtime magazine man, is president and editor of McClure Newspaper Syndicate which distributes, besides articles for publication (Calvin Coolidge was its all-time high), a "confidential letter" printed on a pink sheet "not for publication." Recently this pink sheet quoted a partly identified business executive as talking bloodthirstily about a White House assassination. Quoting "a New York specialist," the pink sheet, in another issue, had described the President's Southern fishing jaunt as a disguised health trip necessitated by his being found in the coma of a dread disease. The purport of these quotations...
...Arthur W. Page, Jr.; Donald G. Parrot; Robert M. Peebles; Samuel F. Peirce; John R. Richards; David Richardson; Russell J. Ryan, Jr.; Marion B. Seevers, Jr.; Robert H. Shepard; Kenneth M. Spence, Jr.; S. Harris Squibb; Robinson Stevens; Allen E. Susman; Peter Van Pelt; George H. Wadsworth; John A. Waldo, Jr.; Lawrence H. Waterman; James F. Whitehead, Jr.; Malcolm R. Wilkey; Hamlin L. Williston; Samuel N. Wolbach, 3d.; and William L. Wood...
...down with . . . candor, his philosophy of life, it would turn out a ... pitiful confusion. . . . Behind the materialism, the cynicism, the indifferentism. the impertinence, the impotence of most of our popular writing exists a failure to think straight from the facts, and to feel straight. . . ." Now and then Waldo Frank sees a few rays of hope filtering down through the nearly impenetrable jungle: in the work of such men as the late liberal journalists Randolph Bourne. Herbert Croly, the late poet Hart Crane. But unfortunately for the reader, when Waldo Frank approaches the appreciative he verges on the mystical, puts...
...jail cell at Terre Haute, Waldo Frank found a microcosm of the U. S. jungle: "In the Terre Haute jail I had our world with me: the atavistic, careless and abnormal; the future, striving to be; the dolorous, dangerous present. I felt at home there...