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...daughter of Headmaster Charles S. Ingham of Dummer Academy (South Byfield, Mass.), only 26 and surpassing fair, she comes naturally by her understanding of nice young modern emotions. How she assimilated the more feverish, spotty metropolitan spectacle-down to the contents of a drug-store cowboy's frayed wallet, stage door argot and the private thoughts of night club Neros-is another story. She worked on metropolitan newspapers, married T. Stewart Brush of the New York Herald Tribune staff, whose father, Lewis Brush, is a press potentate in Ohio...
...suicide under 30 years of age, remained undemonstrated. Evidence to support the "wave" theory was visible only in isolated cases. The self-hanging of Bruce Frederick Wilson, Princeton sophomore, closely followed the self-hanging of a Yale sophomore and the self-asphyxiation of a Princeton graduate student. In the wallet of Mclntire Harsha, University of Chicago freshman found shot dead among Indiana sand dunes, was a news clipping about student discontent (but his father mentioned a love affair...
Today I had eaten lunch and, in preparation for drawing out my wallet and paying my check at the cashier's window, I laid my copy of TIME on the counter. The very flapperish-looking girl behind the bars took up the copy and when I went to hand her my money, she smiled and said, "It's a marvelous magazine, don't you think?" We conversed for some minutes, and I have a date with her. From now on I shall use TIME to help me pick up my dates...
Married. Cyril E. Kissane, city editor of the Wall Street Journal, to Claire Dreyfoos. Last summer Mr. Kissane lost his wallet, received a dainty card, called at indicated address, recovered his treasure, met his bride...
...finished, we three looked at each other aghast: No money! We explained to the head waiter, telling who we were. He was unimpressed, skeptical, obdurate. We needed 180 francs (at par, $34; now $9.50) for our breakfast bill. Finally, I dug a $20 note from among papers in my wallet...