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...Herald, he attached himself in 1911 to Mr. Roosevelt who took him along to the Navy Department. They have been together ever since, call each other "Franklin" and "Louis," share the Governor's town house on East 65th Street. Lacking personal ambition, Secretary Howe keeps himself far in the background, vigorously denies that he is the "power-behind-the-Roosevelt-throne." "I just get things done for him," he insists?answer-ing letters, reading speeches, seeing people. But smart politicians know that Louis Howe has "yes or no" authority from the Governor. They always seek him out, fill him full...
...Experimental College, whose 100-odd students wore Athenian owls on their blazers, gathered in earnest groups to study, first, the Greece of Pericles' Age, then America of the last century. Viewing the two whole, the students might learn to think and live wisely against their contemporary background. So thought Dr. Meiklejohn. To his insurgent College came farm-boys (of native and foreign-born Wisconsin families), Jews from the East, middle and upper-class Wisconsinites, fresh young radicals and quiet conservatives. The Advisers (teachers) had five successive classes-to watch, each of which went on into the University on "the Hill...
...those who take the Hollywood conception of high life in Paris and New York with tongue in cheek, the picture will be an amusing if not an uplifting experience. Ruth Chatterton, suave as usual, is utterly and almost disconcertingly competent. Her leading man, the aforementioned Brent, provides a background of quiet humor and not a little charm, and gives a performance more polished than the inveterate movie goer is accustomed to see in this...
...Cathedral of Notre Dame, and to Versailles" with "remaining free time to be taken up by visits to the theatre, the Opera, shopping, etc.," such trips are culturally worthless. They serve only to while away the long hours of retired nutmeg manufacturers, and provide the thin veneer of background to match the slurred R's of the midwestern matron. The refuge for Americans too far developed for the rubber-neck wagon excursions, however, is the American colony in Paris, which has its annex on the Cote d'Or, and which is equally empty of intellectual nourishment and stimulation...
...Publisher Putnam was fidgeting and fretting in a hotel room. Somewhere out over the Atlantic from Harbor Grace, N. F. was "A. E.," alone this time in a wasp-powered red-&-gold Lockheed. In the four years since her first flight "G. P." had rarely been far in the background of her career. He had backed her flying and, astute about publicity, nurtured her fame when she by her reticence might have let it languish. Two years ago he married her. Now she was flying toward Paris on the fifth anniversary of Lindbergh's flight...