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...army that never stops fighting is The Salvation Army. Because the Army's hot-eyed, autocratic Founder William Booth once asked "Why should the devil have all the best tunes?" Army bandsmen have systematically robbed the devil by piecing soul-saving lyrics to rousing songs. Sample: There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight became Salvation Is the Best Thing in the World. This week ruddy, grey-mustached Brigadier Hubert Edward Burtenshaw of Chicago, dean of the Salvationists' 50,000 U. S. bandsmen, celebrated his 50th anniversary of drumming for the Lord...
...would be a money-making junket. Last week Adam arrived in Manhattan, was unveiled to the U. S. public at 57th Street's Fine Arts Galleries, at 50? a peek. All indications were that, as a come-on curiosity, Adam might run a close second to John Wilkes Booth's mummy or the Cardiff giant. Said a weary gallery attendant: "It's enough to make a fella blush." "I don't know why Eve fell for that guy," muttered one observer. "My dear young woman," retorted a nearby dowager, "she had no choice...
...nomination and election would be in the bag. The South liked him; the South liked him fine; North, East and West he left behind him faithful and fair-weather friends. But Candidate Farley left a doubt behind too: for when the U. S. voter is alone in the polling booth with his ballot and his God, he must satisfy his conscience that his X marks...
...room West Hotel where Jim Hill had eaten, slept and drunk while building his northwest railroad empire; where Ruby Bob Fitzsimmons once demonstrated his solar plexus punch with a bellboy for a sparring partner; where popeyed crowds had gathered, in the reaches of the spreading, pretentious lobby, to watch Booth, Mansfield, Bernhardt, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and many another pass...
...small Midwest town of the buggy days has long awaited a novelist who could see it steadily and whole. Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, for all its savor, its dusty truth, was only a bucketful of that subject. Authentic handfuls may be found in Booth Tarkington, Willa Gather, Edgar Lee Masters. Kings Row, an intelligent attempt to cover the whole ground, is worthy of respect and worth reading, but it is not the hoped-for article...