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...training." It has always been thought that environment and training are important, but it has also been suspected that if a child's father was a moron and his mother an imbecile, the chances were strongly against his becoming a Plato, a Carlyle, or even a Dr. Frank Crane. It is reassuring to have Professor Watson's statement that every new-born babe starts life with an equal endowment of nothing...
...were at What Price Glory? and Mr. Paine was finding it moving and tender and humorous, as who does not? We talked of writing, and the friend and biographer of Samuel Clemens proved tolerant, interested in new things, pleased to reminisce of the old. Did he remember Stephen Crane? Indeed he did; in fact, he had reread The Red Badge of Courage within the last month. He remembered Stephen in the days of The Lantern, a literary club in the downtown regions, where Crane and others congregated-Crane pale, nervous, always a good fellow...
Married. Jan Masaryk, son of Thomas G. Masaryk (CzechoSlovakian President) and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Czecho-Slovakian Republic, to Mrs. Frances Crane Leatherbee, daughter of Charles C. Crane, onetime (1920-21) U. S. Minister to China; in Manhattan...
...even stronger, more virile he-coach, the grand young future before the boy that makes the winning punt, admitted straightway to a prominent position as bond-chaser in Lee Higginson's well-known counting-house . . . They [the s. v. he-men] are fed warmed-over editorials by Doc. Crane about 'Jesus on the Bleachers' and 'Saint Paul on the Field of Battle,' and this may account for the fact that they cheat with a sort of early-Christian simplicity which is almost touching...
Professor Munro also spoke about conditions in Syria, which is under French control. He said that he did not agree with the conclusion drawn by the Crane Report that the Syrians hated the French. One Arab chief summed up to him very well the attitude of the Syrians toward the French...