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Publishers Pulitzer and Scripps were both tall men, both bearded, both wilful and autocratic. Each died on his yacht (Scripps in Monrovia Bay, Africa, five years ago this month). There the similarity ends. Scripps was a book-binder's 13th child. After public schooling and farm life in Rushville. 111., he started work as his half-brother's office boy on the Detroit Tribune for $3 per week. He was 24 when in 1878 he obtained $10,000 from his half-brothers to start a newspaper in Cleveland. He called it The Penny Press and resolved always...
Stalin had had enough of the too ambitious Trotsky, creator of the Red Army and the real "savior" of the Soviet State from the armies of Wrangel, Denikin and Yudenich. In 1925 Klimentiy Voroshilov stood 13th on the ranking list of Soviet commanders. Surely he is grateful to Stalin for lifting him over twelve disgruntled heads to the supreme command. His antecedents are impeccable. Born the son of a very poor Ukrainian peasant in 1881, he became a proletarian factory worker in early youth, has been since 1904 a consistent revolutionist, always modest, fearless and devotedly obedient to his party...
Orchestras, like women, aspire to homes of their own. The ambition, in the case of orchestras, is lofty. It assumes a financial well-being and general confidence which few orchestras ever attain, yet last week it was realized by the prodigious Cleveland Orchestra in its 13th year...
That amiable greybeard Prime Minister Theodore Steeg lost three members from his already enfeebled ministry last week,* but guaranteed the life of his government for at least three weeks by adjourning Parliament until the second Tuesday in January, the fateful 13th. The political spot-light shifted from the Chamber of Deputies to its parliamentary commission investigating the famous Oustric Scandal. Observers realized that until former Prime Minister Andre Tardieu was completely whitewashed of any complicity in the swindles of Banker Albert Oustric it would be impossible for him to succeed to the prime ministry on the fall of the Steeg...
...Henry into his native French. His own books have been translated into 23 languages. During the War he was liaison officer with the British, Indian and U. S. Armies, and was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor. Other books: The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars, The 13th Lover, The Clown Prince, The Love Clinic, Serenade to the Hangman...