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...plenty of confidence, with more than ordinary experience for his years, he had no difficulty finding jobs as a cowpuncher. Like all his breed he was a journeyman worker; from Canada to Mexico he wandered the West. After he had begun to be known as a writer, a cowboy critic once accused him of writing a fake cowboy language, but Author James explains his variations of speech by his many changes of scenery. Only his outfit and his style of riding, says he, never changed...
Wrote the cinema critic of the London Times last week, after viewing the Byrd talkie...
Israel Benjamin Brodie, 46, Manhattan lawyer; Palestine economic. William M. Lewis, 45. Philadelphia municipal judge ; gift funds. Jacob de Haas, '57, Manhattan writer, lecturer; organization. James Guttheim Heller, 38, Cincinnati rabbi, music critic; cultural activities. Abraham Tulin, 47, Manhattan lawyer; publications...
...Paris in the spring of 1870 Charles Timbal was a well known art critic and collector, Gustave Dreyfus was a well known banker. Critic Timbal had a collection of paintings, bronzes, sculpture, medals of the Italian High Renaissance of which he was inordinately fond. Banker Dreyfus had a great deal of money...
...Prussian War, Sedan, the fall of the Empire. The Prussians encircled Paris. Fiery Leon Gambetta escaped in a balloon to direct the war from Tours. The beleaguered Parisians were left to eat rats and sawdust bread, shout the "Marseillaise" from the ramparts. Banker Dreyfus had an opportunity to purchase Critic Timbal's collection at a very attractive price. During the next 20 years, when defeated France was re-establishing herself, he had many similar opportunities...