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...Conceivably Publicist Barton had handled the thing better than any "boy" could have done, Mr. Barton being on old hand at what is called "human interest stuff...
...When had any "boy" asked for a similar interview and been refused? What would the other "boys" have thought if one of their number had "scooped" the rest? And after all, was not the "boys' " prime function that of reporting the President's official, not his personal, history...
...they met again at Washington for the first autumn sitting of the U. S. Supreme Court. Eight justices received scant press notice, but Chief Jus, tice William Howard Taft was, as usual, quizzed. Said a reporter: "How is Prohibition working out in Canada?" Answered the Chief Justice: "My dear boy, I have been out of politics a good many years, but I still know enough about politics to know what not to talk about...
Once there was a little Victorian boy whose father wanted him to become a great statesman. He was sent to Rugby, to aristocratic Trinity College, Cambridge. Then, in order that he might meet statesmen who really mattered, he went to Germany. He became almost intimate with Bismarck, a great feat for a stripling. The Kaiser himself was reported to have listened without displeasure to the conversation of young Austen Chamberlain...
...this crime against the untainted amateur spirit will not, it is predicted, meet with the success that had been predicted. There was no scrambling for the balls, players were not besieged for autographs. Mademoiselle Lenglen and Mr. Richards missed a trick by not sending tennis balls to the sick boy whose convalescence has recently been so materially aided by the receipt of a baseball from Mr. Ruth and a football from Mr. Grange. The Madison Square Garden audience showed no World Series fever and Mademoiselle Lenglen showed no temperament. Which in itself is enough to prove that there...