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Architect Freedlander lost no time, took the first boat to Europe. Accompanied by the Messrs. Baruch and Pierrepont Burt Noyes he toured the spas and pump houses of Europe: Vichy, Nauheim, Baden-Baden, Bath, Montecatini, taking notes. He returned last week, full of ideas. For their million dollars, New York cardiacs and taxpayers will have the largest pump house in the world. Because U. S. spas are backward in their understanding of Regime? diet, exercise, rest facilities to accompany a water cure?Architect Freedlander will concentrate on appurtenances...
...Swift Story Magazine (It Fits Your Pocket), The Pocket Magazine and The Dime Novel. First of the three was ready for publication this week. But it was The Dime Novel, scheduled to appear next month, which brought a reflective smile to the white-haired man-William Gilbert Patten ("Burt L. Standish"), author of the famed old time Frank Merriwell series, now venturing for the first time as his own publisher...
...what the author hoped-the hero of practically every youngster in the U. S, At the peak of his career Author Patten believes, a half-million schoolboys read him every week (many out of sight of parental eyes). Every week for 18 years Author Patten (under the name of "Burt L. Standish" so that others might carry on after him, or in case of illness) ground out 20,000 words. At first he was paid $50 a week, never more than $150, despite a legend that Merriwell made him rich. He is probably the most prolific writer...
...Wednesday's Boston Herald, Burt Whitman, sports writer, in a column headed "Why all this hysteria?" charged Harvard undergraduates and graduates in general with an unwarranted and foolish optimism in regard to the approaching grid campaign. In fact he included in his indictment all football fans "within 50 miles of the sacred cod atop the state house." He says, "It begins to look as if Harvard might win all of its games by undergraduate and general fan edict before a single game is played. It is a hysteria of optimism which is not at all uncommon in college football circles...
This testimony greatly distressed Senator Watson, then an active presidential candidate. He denied the Rogers statement but not, according to his friends, emphatically, convincingly enough. Thereafter, according to the charges in the Rogers damage suit, Candidate Watson, Republican National Committeeman M. Burt Thurman and six other Indiana politicians (all defendants in this case) conspired to compel Plaintiff Rogers to reverse his testimony given the Senate committee...