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...exaltation and depression. When a manic or a schizoid or any type of mental aberration annoys his neighbors, they call him crazy and have him locked up. Yet there is no perfectly sane person on earth. Sanity is merely the general average of a community's general behavior...
...charm. This sentimental romance gives Actress Gaynor a chance to flutter about in an orphan asylum, endearing herself to the authorities by telling stories to the other orphans and feeding them icecream. A youthful philanthropist (Warner Baxter) who sees her in the performance of her good turns finds her behavior so cajoling that he decides to pay her way through college. She, unaware of his identity, sees his shadow distorted on the floor one day and coins a nickname for him, Daddy Long Legs...
...Havre last week arrived the junketing Mayors and representatives of 24 U. S. cities with their wives and children, all guests of France for the International Colonial & Overseas Exposition (TIME, May 25). Their behavior on foreign soil immediately began to make front-page news in their respective homes. Havre's Mayor Leon Meyer greeted them with a long flowery speech. Baltimore's Ex-Mayor Broening* proposed a mock marriage to symbolize the union of "Uncle Sam and Miss France." The groom was beetle-browed George L. Baker of Portland, Ore. The bride was Mrs. Claire Skeel Baker...
Mayor Porter was privately rebuked by his colleagues for his crass behavior, was told that repetitions of such a scene would spoil the "goodwill'' of the whole junket. When the party reached Rouen where another banquet was served them, Mayor Porter had been coached in the art of responding to French toasts. Instead of stalking out, he lifted his champagne glass to his lips, did not sip, did not swallow...
...watch the behavior of the 20 executives including Los Angeles' Porter. Cleveland's Marshall, New Orleans' Walmsley, Atlanta's Key, Milwaukee's Hoan and Omaha's Metcalfe, and mayoral representatives from New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Indianapolis, was a United Press correspondent. He slyly observed that "three Western mayors" were drinking in the ship's bar the first day out, refrained from naming them...