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...poles of an electric cell are Calvin Coolidge and Alfred Emanuel Smith. The nearer the parallel of their careers, the more emphatic the difference in the men. Last week Citizen Smith followed another turn in Citizen Coolidge's tracks, signed a contract to write a newspaper colyum. Under the probable heading "The State of the Nation," Colyumist Smith will write (beginning Jan. 4) for McNaught Syndicate between 1,000 and 1,500 words for each Sunday-the one day of the week when Colyumist Coolidge does not appear. He may discuss "politics or any other subject," and, according...
...contrast between the Frumkin homelife and the Franklin bullfights and ballyhoo inspired two Manhattan colyum-ists to comment. Heywood Broun of the Telegram wrote: "Suppose you were one of Sidney's relatives. What would you suggest [for his entertainment]? I will endeavor to enter into the fantasy myself...
...verses from a parody published in The Pilot House, a colyum of the Virginian Pilot and the Norfolk Landmark...
...Label bass ale), for the past ten years a Manhattan stockbroker (Reynolds, Fish & Co.), British-born father of Heywood Campbell Broun, colyumist for the New York Telegram and Socialist candidate for Congress; after a paralytic stroke, at St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan. After some reflection Colyumist Broun wrote a colyum about his father. Excerpts...
...Naval Institute's Proceedings published last fortnight, Lieut. Thomas G. W. Settle wrote what many an airman already knew: "There is only one bona fide airship engine in the world today- [Germany's] Maybach." Last week in his syndicated newspaper colyum, Calvin Coolidge blunderingly deplored: "A naval office reports that the best engine is made abroad," missing the lighter-than-air distinction. Navy officials protested. Had not the Navy been largely responsible for the development of the air-cooled motor for planes...