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Senator Phelan, according to your article under Art in TIME, June 15, was fond of $1 Havana cigars. This recalls to mind, I was collecting rent from Aron Cohen at his cigar store in Santa Cruz, where James Phelan Sr. had his summer home and where young Jimmie spent his summers under the parental roof...
...Geneva in 1927, between Russia's Litvinoff and Britain's Austen Chamberlain; 2) at The Hague in 1929 between France's Briand and Britain's Philip Snowden. When Slocombe knew France's present Socialist Premier Leon Blum, he was still a literary boulevardier, fond of the applause of women and a crony of the late great writer Marcel Proust. Implicit in The Tumult & the Shouting is Slocombe's own realization that not only have his captains and kings departed but that their tumult was a weary gibberish, hardly destined to outlive them. Bravely...
...rique Jeanne Amélia de Crussol d'Uzés, is the bourgeois-born daughter of one of France's great industrial families, the Béziers. Her father's millions were derived from the tinning of sardines. Precocious as a child and fond of teasing an old Senator, her uncle, to tell her about the politics of the day and the political salons of great French maitresses in the past, Marie Louise acquired by marriage the exalted nobility of the House d'Uzés, espoused the grandson of the greatest and most socially...
Newspaper editors are not as a rule fond of pressagents, but Dexter Fellows is a pressagent extraordinary, and he ballyhoos the most widely beloved of U. S. businesses. On the annual news that the circus is coming to town, even the dourest city editor is moved to let his newshawks soar far from earthy fact into the empyrean of their fancy-especially when the harbinger of this perennial Noah's Ark is such a downy dove as Dexter Fellows. In the 43 years Harbinger Fellows has been pressagenting for the circus, he has never failed to get favorable free...
...Manhattan's McAlpin Hotel. One stunt he denies any connection with was plumping the midget (Lia Graf) on J. P. Morgan's knee. Of circus freaks in general Fellows writes with friendly sympathy. He recalls one Jonathan R. Bass, an ossified man: "He seemed well informed, was fond of conversation, and was an atheist." Once a certain fire-eating man fell in love with the bearded lady, whose place was next his on the sideshow platform. When she spurned him, his love turned to hate. At the next show he suddenly shot his flaming breath at her, singed...