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Adam Fenwick-Symes has just finished his autobiography in Paris and is bringing it home, but the manuscript is confiscated by the authorities in Dover as obscene. So he becomes a society-gossip writer for a London newspaper: his column, getting more and more imaginative, becomes more and more successful until one day he goes too far. Then he lives on credit, and on the hopes of collecting ?35,000 which a drunken major wins for him on a horse race. He and the major occasionally meet but always lose each other before the money can change hands. Adam...
Author Alec Waugh, less gifted, less sprightly a writer than his brother, has been more places, seen more things. Says he: it all started in the spring of 1925 when the London Daily Graphic gossip writer spoke of Mr. Waugh's imminent departure to the South Seas. Mr. Waugh had planned no departure; but his friends became so importunately curious that finally he went. This book describes his adventures...
...borne him three children, was great with a fourth. On a hot July evening last year he was asleep in his bed, with his daughter, Dorothy Louise, 7, at his side, when Mrs. Drew entered his room lumberingly, shot him through the heart. Her reasons: drink, other women, gossip...
...Jeff Davis face modeled by Lukeman lurked the same inexplicable resemblance to Abraham Lincoln which has bred gossip of kinship between the two. Such report is based largely on the fact that Lincoln and Davis were born eight months apart, within 100 miles of each other in Kentucky. Dr. William Eleazar Barton, foremost Lincoln scholar, has flayed such gossip as baseless and untrue...
...week. Unmentioned in his catalog of opponents was the not inconsiderable figure of King Alfonso. For years the King has been less than lukewarm to the dictatorship, continually giving awkward hints of a return to parliamentary government "as soon as conditions warrant." A month ago Madrid cafes buzzed with gossip that the King was about to demand the resignation of Dictator Primo de Rivera as Prime Minister and appoint that elegant grandee, the Duke of Alba, in his place (TIME, Dec. 2). Dictator Primo de Rivera quashed the rumor, sternly announced that the present dictatorship would continue "indefinitely." King Alfonso...