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Henry L Mencken, 65, lord high lambaster of the '20s, had a visit from Columnist Ward Morehouse and impersonated his old self. Nostalgic excerpts from the interview: "People are in a state of imbecility. The country is a wreck. . . . The United Nations has no more chance than the Ku Klux Klan would have in the Vatican...
Died. Frank Case, 73, urbane proprietor-host of Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel, where the literati of the '20s (Woollcott, Benchley, etc., etc.) lunched at his famed Round Table, and where for four decades he matched wits with assorted writers and actors, afterwards chronicled their comings & goings in two volumes of anecdotes (Tales of a Wayward Inn, Do Not Disturb}; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
Plumbing Politics. A less talented and engaging figure might not have survived Strachey's political shiftings. Son of John St. Loe Strachey, noted Tory editor of The Spectator, he was schooled at Eton and Oxford, became one of Labor's "wild young men" in the '20s. Breaking violently away in 1931, young John was chief lieutenant for Sir Oswald Mosley when Mosley was not quite a fascist...
...Canada the rate, which in the '20s was 3% of all births, had climbed to 4.61%, with 6,581 births for the first half of last year. Moralized the Toronto Daily Star: "Young people ... are getting into trouble...
...News, with Hearst's Mirror and Bernarr Macfadden's now defunct Graphic, was the ribald historian of the flapper-speakeasy-whoopee '20s. They competed in a pell-mell rush to give Manhattan gum-chewers the lowdown on Fatty Arbuckle, Peaches Browning, Arnold Rothstein, Kip Rhinelander. The grisliest news-picture of the era-Murderess Ruth Snyder in Sing Sing's electric chair-was run by Patterson's personal order...