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...upset by all this was Maclean's famed Saturday Evening Post of Canada, that its editorial on the Glorious First (Queen Victoria established the Dominion on July 1, 1867) was devoted not to the usual fanfare of Canadians pointing with pride to Canada but to a full page of viewing with alarm these and other Canadian troubles. Cried Maclean...
...Mill Neck, on Long Island's swank North Shore estate of onetime Aircraft Manufacturer Grover Cleveland Loening, 500 socialites gathered for a beauty contest between "16 Gorgeous, Glorious, Glamorous Girls, a Breath-taking Panoply of Pulchritude" enlisted from the neighborhood's own select ranks. Among the contestants were Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney as Miss Wheatley Hills, Mrs. John R. Fell as Miss Woodbury, Helen Whitney Bourne as Miss Mitt Neck, Mrs. George Hepburn as Miss Locust Valley, Mrs. Jay Carlisle Jr. as Miss East Islip. The young women first paraded before the judges in evening dress, then...
What a nasty and disagreeable article your correspondent wrote about the fair in San Diego [TIME, June 10). Well aware are we all that every exposition must contend with midways and sideshows. But that your representative should overlook the glorious beauty of the fairgrounds, which alone would warrant a visit from millions of visitors, is hard to forgive. Many subscriptions will you lose on the West Coast from this article, but not mine...
...impersonal hecatombs of battle into individual instances of coldblooded killing. Since the World War, writers who are also veterans have been resurrecting many an unknown soldier. Their grisly finds make a pile of evidence more terribly impressive (though more ephemeral) than any neat, white, euphemistic cenotaph to the glorious dead. Austria's Andreas Latzko (Men in War), France's Henri Barbusse (Le Feu), England's C. E. Montague (Disenchantment), Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer), Robert Graves (Goodbye to All That), Germany's Fritz von Unruh (Way of Sacrifice), Erich Remarque (All Quiet...
With its customary zeal in reminding Frenchmen of the glorious hazards of life in the French colonies, the Paris Illustration hastened to print photographs of the jungle tragedy, taken on the scene by the Belgian Congo's official photographer. L'Illustration's cover showed the great white gash the plane had cut in the forest. Inside was a meticulous chart showing the contours of the plane's debris and the exact positions to which the crash hurled the bodies of Governor and Mme Renard and their five companions...