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...robes. Wanting to go to China, where the Kuomintang Revolution was sweeping up towards Shanghai from the South, he had a hard time persuading his bosses that "personal adventure" awaited in the Far East. Eventually, however, he managed to turn the trick, got a drawing account, set out to interview Sun Yat-sen's widow, the delicate Soong Ching-ling; Borodin, the Russian adviser to the Kuomintang; Eugene Chen, who had been Sun Yat-sen's secretary, and other figures in the Chinese Revolution. These figures are pictured vividly in Personal History...
...Daily News, went on to Paris, where Henry Wales made him assistant in the European bureau of the Chicago Tribune. Followed some years of chasing political bigwigs from conference to conference in Europe, and then came the break that made Vincent Sheean a name. The break consisted of an interview with Abd-el-Krim, Riff Chieftain who was making things hot in North Africa. Later, after a second interview with Abd-el-Krim, Sheean became known as the "modern Richard Harding Davis," a feature writer who could be counted upon to turn up good "personal adventure" stuff for the entertainment...
...passenger who got Eastern Air Lines the most publicity, however, was a starry-eyed New Orleans stenographer named Marie Louise Reynolds. Miss Reynolds, who studies journalism at night at Loyola University, was described by Col. Rickenbacker as a stowaway. His story: Stowaway Reynolds, 17, boarded the plane to interview Col. Rickenbacker for her college paper. She forgot to get off, was discovered after the takeoff. Reproached, she wept. Col. Rickenbacker succeeded in comforting...
...this point a sleepy little Jewess of 34 sidled into the room, threw back her leopard-skin coat, pulled a crumpled hat off her short, mousy hair, yawned, sat down. Viennese Actress Elizabeth Bergner, just off the Olympic, was about to give her first U. S. interview...
...recent CRIMSON interview, Dr. Beyle declared that he had been grossly misquoted. Asked whether he believed this to be the beginning of a nation-wide Fascist campaign or merely a Hearst publicity stunt, Dr. Beyle declined to answer, saying that he would reserve his comments in case he is called is testify before the McCormack-Dicksters committee investigating un-American activities...