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...Uncle Bertie's cousin Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher of the huge, America Firstish New York Daily News, Trini Barnes says: "I'm still personally fond of him . . . a nice considerate gentleman. I asked him once why he had turned his paper into what it is and he acted surprised and said he wasn't conscious of any change. I don't believe he is." Of the Captain's sister, Eleanor "Cissie" Patterson, publisher of the Washington Times Herald, end of the McCormick-Patterson party line, Mrs. Barnes says: "We seldom meet. When...
...women in the service of whom I am really fond! The women with whom for 13 months I have worked and lived and played. . . . These are the women I call Americans...
...Vechten is as incurable a collector as his own Peter Whiffle. But he usually gives everything away. The New-York Public Library has his boyhood hoard of cigaret pictures. Fastidious, unpredictable Van Vechten does not regret having abandoned musical criticism at 33 (because he thought he was getting too fond of Strauss waltzes to be ,really judicious) or novel writing at 52 (because he had had enough). He is busy with photography, a craft in which he has dabbled since 1895 and of which he is now a top-flight practitioner. His forthcoming one-man show in Harlem will include...
...Born in Maryland, educated in New Hampshire (St. Paul's) and Germany (Heidelberg), Bonsal had in 1915 been a world traveler and newspaperman for 30 years, became a lieutenant colonel in World War I. For James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald (who, he says, was fond of "quoting winged words which, rightly or wrongly, he attributed to Abraham Lincoln"), Bonsal covered the meetings of Russian and German revolutionists in New York City and London, flew in balloon races, once tested a submarine in New York Harbor. When he met House...
...factories and her people. Gone were the oil of the Caucasus, the wheat of the Ukraine, the coal of the Donets basin. Now, at Nikopol, the Germans lost more than half of the manganese used by their industry. When the iron of Kirvoi Rog is lost, Hitler's fond dream of military and economic self-sufficiency in Russia would come...