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...night in the roaring '20s Singer Raymond charged into his Hollywood home, ordered out of it Paul Kelly, stalwart young screen juvenile. Said Kelly: "You think I'm in love with your wife - and I am." A few months later Kelly came back. In the presence of Actress Mackaye and her daughter, Valerie Raymond, 4, Kelly threatened Raymond. But the singer, who said he had been drinking for two weeks, did not want to fight. Kelly slugged him. Ray Raymond died of the injuries he received. Contributing cause: acute alcoholism...
...laws, highway improvements. Last week he worked on his message to Congress. But if, like many a U. S. citizen, he looked back over the years between those speeches, it was to contemplate a period that future historians may well call the Age of Distrust. As the unsteady '20s had been the years of indifference, of wasted time and missed opportunities-when prosperity obscured blotches in the social system, gaping flaws in the economic structure-so the '305 were the years when U. S. citizens trusted neither themselves, their social system, nor the world...
Philadelphia's great ache came from the great void of its treasury. For 55 years the city has been under the uninterrupted control of a Republican machine, its destiny in the hands of "Gas House" Jim McManes, Boies Penrose, the late Ed and Bill Vare. In the '20s a City Hall spending crew, whooped on by Contractors Vare & Vare & Jerry Louchheim, built subways, parkways, museums, public buildings, sank $50,000,000 into the Sesqui-Centennial...
...away the toughest airplane pilots on the North American continent are the rakehell Canuck airmen who since the '20s have lugged machinery and prospectors, food and engineers into the vast country north of Canada's twin transcontinental railroads. But Canadian airmen have had no counterpart in Canadian airplanes. During World War I Canada built 2,500 warplanes, but last year she built only 282 machines for a gross of $4,001,622, most of them U. S. models built under license (Lockheeds, Grummans, Piper Cubs). Next year it may be different...
...written, Carl Sandburg may well be esteemed the luckiest of his Midwestern generation. Vachel Lindsay and Edgar Lee Masters had as great if not greater native talent; even Ben Hecht, whose desk was next to Sandburg's on the Chicago Daily News in the early '20s, seemed a more brilliant, sophisticated writer. Of them all, Sandburg, the immigrant's son, got the surest roothold in authentic U. S. tradition, and got it perhaps by the near accident of digging for the truth about Abraham Lincoln. "That son-of-a-gun Lincoln grows on you," he once told...