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...never could have happened. Citizen & Mrs. Hoover leave the White House, but Mrs. Hoover (acidic Helen Broderick) does not depart without telling Dolly Gann what she thinks of her, nor does she forget to strip the place of spoons, portraits, electric toasters and the radio aerial. John D. Rockefeller (Clifton Webb) totters after his son with a knife when he learns the family owns Radio City. Mahatma Gandhi (Mr. Webb in a sheet) plans a vaudeville act with Aimee Semple McPherson, in which the two sing a duet and execute an off-to-Buffalo. Mary of England learns that...
...District Attorney John Gung'l, which said that the Examiner's story was substantially correct. This was the only indication that Arizona's Press knew it was being scooped. Last week, the Examiner printed more stories on the scandal, reported that U. S. District Attorney Clifton Mathews was investigating the matter...
...Just before Clifton M. Rogers, hotel clerk too much in love, ended his life he sat down and wrote...
...Life of Johnson, to Herman Melvill's Moby Dick, to Charles Montagu Doughty's Arabia Deserta. The Book of Talbot is a biography of a comparatively unknown man written by his widow. Gravely, not to say solemnly told, it is sometimes pompous but never inane. Authoress Clifton's fierce reverence for her subject does at times succeed in making her manner grand...
Like many an Englishman since the days of Drake, Talbot Clifton (1868-1928), found England too small, too safe. Scion of an ancient line (beginning in 1060), and inheritor of great estates, he stayed caged only long enough to go through Eton and Cambridge, then set off to live dangerously in far places. Twice before he was 20 he circled the globe, but trotting in tourist tracks was not his idea. He aimed to make his body an instrument of his will. Practicing this counsel of perfection, he wandered purposefully to Mexico, California, Alaska, the Barren Lands north of Hudson...