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Australians, like the sturdy U. S. pioneers, have not been too ready in the past to vote for a man who habitually wore spats. When Stanley Melbourne Bruce, now Prime Minister of Australia, first came before the electorate as a young man in spats he was reviled, hooted and mercilessly cartooned. Only his six feet of strapping manhood, a resolute independence, and the light of command in his steady eyes have enabled him to carry off this idiosyncrasy in triumph through the years. Last week he prepared to carry off a new whim which seemed to some Australians more foolhardy...
...friends Mr. Bruce pointed out an exceedingly wide set of "garage doors" opening from the cellar of his residence near Melbourne. The doors swung back, revealing an airplane. Said Prime Minister Bruce: "I got it to fly back and forth between here and Canberra...
SHERWOOD EDDY, 56, Manhattan; Y.M.C.A. secretary for Asia. Like Bruce Barton he is no clergyman...
...BRUCE BARTON, 41, Manhattan, President, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (advertising agents). He is son of William Eleazar Barton (see above), is no clergyman himself...
...this list neither Bruce Barton nor Sherwood Eddy is a preacher. Nor are all the others mentioned famed for especial ability as preachers. Obviously the list was fallacious...