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...Only at intervals in this issue will the reader cut himself on the razor edge of real wit. There is a paragraph in the south-west corner of page 232 which would have made F. P. A. very happy had he thought of it. The parody of the sainted Bruce Barton on page 237 is clean-cut work; and Reynal's full page drawing, though encumbered with too much work on the background and accessories, gives promise of a real gift for cartooning. Questions 2 and 4 in "How Much Do You Know" are as funny as they come anywhere...
...BRUCE F. BUNDY...
...Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury: "Waves leaped high, smote windows and doors on the upper decks. The British White Star liner Olympic rolled like the tub of a washing machine. Said I, on being greeted by Ambassador Myron T. Herrick and my son-in-law, David K. E. Bruce, in Paris: 'It was a severe crossing, one of the worst I ever experienced.' I am in Europe, not for politics, but to visit my daughter who has recently been operated upon for appendicitis, in Rome...
...only man who has the made any sort of a comprehensive exploration in this region, and part of his work in fact, will involve the substantiation and elaboration of the reports made by these previous expeditions. The report of Hall, for example, in regard to the ice of Bruce Glacier which he traced into a canyon 20 by 100 feet will be followed up by Ostheimer and if possible he will make a more complete observation...
...like of which Mr. Stone would never have permitted. President Harding's death, Woodrow Wilson's death, the deaths of Rudolph Valentino, Floyd Collins and Luther Burbank, were cited as other points of departure for "flights of puerile fancy" by Associated Press "poets." The employment of Publicist Bruce Barton for his famed "human interest" interview with President Coolidge in the Adirondacks last summer was cited as an example of Associated Pressure. More sinister, the possible connection between this favor from the Administration and the A. P.'s obliging treatment of U. S. Department of State propaganda against...