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French editors have grown daily more apoplectic at the hardihood of Turkey in detaining under arrest in Constantinople one Lieutenant Desmons (TIME, Sept. 20 et ante) commander of the French steamer Lotus which collided some weeks ago with a Turkish cargo boat on the high seas...
When the U. S. entered the World War, the late Franklin K. Lane, then Secretary of the Interior, was called upon by keen-eyed Mr. Campbell, who had a proposition. His idea was that untold quantities of wheat could be grown upon Indian reservation lands lying idle...
...Selfridge has grown proud of his store. It has become his life's accomplishment. So, with the intention of perpetuating it as the climax of his achievements, he last week wrote a letter to his customers : "I want to know that, whatever happens, the business which I have founded and into which I have put so much of myself will go on. Naturally, I should like Selfridge's to remain in the family, but I do not want to feel that if one of my descendants is weak and incapable of administration, this great firm will go down...
...hills is he. Mountain trails and trout streams he knows. If blindfolded in the dense woods, he could find his way out without bumping into a single tree. Ormond (erroneously called "Omar") Doty is an able guide and fishing companion of President Coolidge. Between them has grown a friendship which is shown by their understanding silence when together...
...amazingly glib barbarism. Here and there comes a cut, neat and very close to the bone: a program to allow university women some escape from the sex-consciousness forced upon them by deans, pastors and mothers; the logic of a star halfback who turns professional (Red Grange) ; a moss-grown professor's vivid, wistful wife; a crisp instructress who secretly, cherishing lost youth's glamor, rouges her ear-tips. Time and again this book comes alarmingly near to telling just what that divine peril, youth's glamor, actually...