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...three most healthful outdoor sports, most conducive to good living and longevity (he is 70) are in his opinion golf, fishing, shooting. He golfs at Old Elm, top-notch Lake Forest, Ill. club for men only. He fishes at Coleman Lake Club (Wisconsin), shoots ducks at the Sanganois Club (Illinois River). He is an ardent Prohibitionist for medical and scientific reasons. He takes himself very seriously...
...patent leather boots, brass spurs and swagger importantly around, showing off his pearl-handled revolver loaded with five ordinary bullets and a special silver one. All of a sudden he will hear the distant beat of tom-toms, 72 to a minute and he will start supposedly into a forest, spend his first bullet at thick of night on formless, brightwood creatures who will mock him. His second bullet will go for a Pullman porter, dead long before from a razor-slash in a crap game; his third for a prison-guard whose head he has already bashed with...
...staged with the chorus of pursuing savages grouped out of the audience's sight at first, some underneath, some in front of the stage. As they draw nearer to Jones, first their hands will emerge, then their arms, then slowly their bodies. Jones's encounters in the forest will be shown on small, raised stages to indicate that they are taking place in his imagination...
Died. Donald Mitchell Ryerson, 47, board chairman of Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, independent Chicago steel company, Wartime organizer of "Four-Minute Men" to sell Liberty Bonds; by his own hand (pistol); at Lake Forest, Ill. A coroner's jury of six fellow-millionaires declared his death a suicide...
...great tradition. Among confused but brilliant conversations the story of the factory's building winds its way. The expropriated peasants protest; hairy saints are rumored to have come from the mossy woods to warn against the new regime; the workers riot; everybody talks at brilliant length. Through the evergreen forest's fur a road is sheared. An immense boom crosses the river, holds back the confluence of logs. With spring's floods the boom breaks. It does not matter?build better, build again. In the depth of the silent wilderness the shouting workmen build Sotstroy. The babel of their confusion...