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...announcement from the White House explained that his New York & Boston jobs (insurance and politics) were too strenuous. Son James would therefore presently retire to the family estate at Hyde Park. There he would install a modern cost accounting system in the President's dairy, prepare a chart showing whether occasional experiments in the President's forest preserves could be made a continuous activity giving steady employment. Son James felt sure his insurance business would continue to prosper under the attentions he could spare from his agricultural duties...
...Morning Telegraph, Cincinnati Racing Record, which have made Publisher Moe Annenberg a millionaire, and which in New York City alone receive 200,000 telephone calls daily from bettors asking racing information. Most valuable ingredient in such publications is a feature, completely unintelligible to uninitiate readers, called a "past performance chart" which for every important race run in the U. S. reveals the complete competitive history of each entrant...
Millis' fever chart of the U. S. war psychosis is carefully factual, but to unregenerate patriots it may seem pro-German, or at least anti-Ally. Says he: "The merits of the European struggle are beyond [the book's] scope, and it is no part of my purpose either to defend the German cause or to attack that of the Allies. Since it deals with an episode profoundly influenced by a passionate acceptance of the Entente case, much of it is necessarily devoted to a criticism of that case. . . ." Author Millis determinedly refrains from diagnosing the disease...
...French colonies, the Paris Illustration hastened to print photographs of the jungle tragedy, taken on the scene by the Belgian Congo's official photographer. L'Illustration's cover showed the great white gash the plane had cut in the forest. Inside was a meticulous chart showing the contours of the plane's debris and the exact positions to which the crash hurled the bodies of Governor and Mme Renard and their five companions...
When a normal person becomes unconscious from breathing too much nitrogen, faints from low blood pressure, or simply goes to sleep, the fast small waves on the chart are replaced by large slow waves, one to five a second...