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Brooklyn-bred Richard Lee Strout has been rising to that task at least since the early 1920s, when, not long out of Harvard, he parked his Model T on the ellipse behind the White House and joined the local Monitor crew. He trod the White House beat while Warren G. Harding entertained Nan Britton in a coat closet, and when tight-lipped Calvin Coolidge gravely turned over a ceremonial spade of earth one Arbor Day and, asked to say a few words, pronounced: "That's a fine fishworm." He called Franklin D. Roosevelt "the greatest President of my time...
DIED. Matthew Josephson, 79, biographer of an imposing collection of Old and New World figures; in Santa Cruz, Calif. After a period as a young expatriate in Paris in the 1920s, Josephson concentrated on famous Frenchmen (Rousseau and Zola). But a roving intellect led him home to do literary portraits of Americans (Thomas Edison, Al Smith and Sidney Hillman) as well as a study of 19th century capitalists whose rapacious ways he exploited in his most celebrated book, The Robber Barons...
DIED. Theresa Weld Blanchard, 84, who became America's first ladies' figure-skating champion in 1914, and won nine U.S. gold medals with Partner Nathaniel Niles during her reign as "Queen of the Ice" in the 1920s and 1930s; of cancer; in Boston. Rebelling against the constrained motions then expected even of free skaters in America, Blanchard pioneered a more sweeping international style and was often marked down by judges for her "unladylike" loops and swoops. She founded Skating magazine and served as its editor for 40 years...
...MATHER HOUSE Drama Society's production of the play updates the action to the Paris of the 1920s. This seems to be a device to allow for several vaudevillian dance numbers, easy costuming and great jazz interlude music from a three piece combo led by Anthony Patera on piano...
...means deserves all the blame. The troubles can be traced largely to Lane's overly liberal lending policies. Lane grants the point, conceding that he forgot all the lessons his banker father drummed into his head about the collapse of the Florida real estate boom of the 1920s. But Kattel had made himself vulnerable through overoptimism; he long refused to write down the value of loans in the bank's faltering portfolio. As C & S head, he had developed the boyish habit of sending symbolic bullets to Atlantans who made tough decisions. He dispatched one to Lance, whom...