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...considerable tools or luggage be- sides. It had extra high gears. It was battered, dented and per- forated with the marks of a hundred unguessable expeditions. Ac- tually quite innocent, it seemed to symbolize the spirit of what the Ohio underworld casually refers to as "the Mellett job...
Eugene O'Neill's unproduced manuscripts are various. Those most likely to reach the stage this season are a dramatization of the book of Job, a play called Marco's Millions, and a third called Lazarus Laughed...
Banker Van Vetchen, born in Michigan but reared in Iowa, once wished to be an author himself. But he was detoured from his yearnings by getting a job in a bank. The dignity from which he is now taken was the senior vice presidency of the Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago, whose only rival for the rank of greatest Chicago bank is the Illinois Merchants Trust...
...Morrow, Morgan partner. Mr. Morrow is also an old friend (Amherst classmate) of Calvin Coolidge-was, perhaps, Mr. Coolidge's best friend among the great, before he became President. But, so far, Mr. Morrow has had no overt connection with the Administration, except to tackle the thankless thorny job of aviation investigation. And his influence upon Mr. Coolidge's appointments has been conspicuously negligible-much too negligible in many people's opinion...
...palate of Demos. A week before, a hosiery company had conducted an ankle contest among chorus girls, and the Mirror hit upon the idea of a competition between other parts of girls' bodies. The Mirror delicately chose the lips; offered a $100 prize, and an understudy's job in a kissy revue, for "the prettiest lips in America." For convenience and popularity, it was explained that entrants might display their labial pulchritude by smearing their lips with rouge and pressing them upon slips of paper in whatever patterns seemed most seductive. When these slips began pouring...