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With little time for writing, "Steve" Hannagan sold a dozen articles to Cosmopolitan last year on such personages as Tunney, Tommy Milton, Johnny Weissmuller, Gar Wood, Bill Tilden, Albie Booth. Last October, aged 30, he married Ruth Ellery of Manhattan. He likes to lie beneath a Panatrope phonograph and whistle in tune with it. The sound of anyone eating an apple before breakfast sends him into a rage. He wishes he could tap dance, has no use for "public relations counsels." Odds, Ends...
MARY'S NECK-Booth Tarkington-Doubleday, Doran...
...Author. Newton Booth Tarkington (no A. B., but honorary A. M. Princeton, 1899; Litt.D. Princeton, 1918; Litt.D. De Pauw, 1923; Litt.D. Columbia, 1924) was born in Indianapolis, Ind. in 1869, owes much to Middle Western authors William Dean Howells. Mark Twain. As a boy he had St. Vitus-like nervous disorders; improved, went to college at Princeton. He returned to live in Indiana, started out as an illustrator. Failing at that he wrote for eight years: his gross returns were $22.50. The Gentleman from Indiana (1899) gave him his start. Penrod (1914) kept him going strong...
...forbid students to play in such contests while they are candidates for degrees, but the eligibility of graduates for such a team is unquestioned. W. B. Wood '32 is one of the seniors who has declined the invitation, as he intends to study during the summer. Former captain Albie Booth of Yale will practice with the squad...
...Booth Tarkington's favorite stories is about a colored cook who returned from lodge meeting with the announcement that she had just been elected "Supreme Exalted Ruler of the Universe," but explained that there were eleven other members of the lodge higher than that. Russia's Supreme Economic Council is in fact one of eleven commissariats in the Russian Cabinet or Union Council of People's Commissars. It has charge of all factories, mines, mills, is a super-Department of Commerce. Its chairman, Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, is to Josef Stalin as Herbert Hoover was to Presidents Harding & Coolidge. Last week Stalin...