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...letter day when the U. S. State Department takes off its kid gloves for handling the English Foreign Office. Last Saturday Mr. Hull put them in his glove box, and slammed the lid. He let it be known that he didn't like English search of U. S. mail going to neutral countries, and furthermore, he didn't like the excuses she offered for it. It is a complicated situation, but the essence of it is that though England has agreed in the past not to make such a search, she feels that her assumed right to look for contraband...
Yankee Doodle Boy hits pretty hard at Cohan's early days when, as a flip, conceited kid playing in vaudeville, he high-hatted stagehands, raised hell over his billing. But as Cohan matures, the story mellows, draws an affectionate picture of the Great Flag-Waver in his prime. Playing the old songs, bringing on the scene David Belasco, Fay Templeton, George Arliss, Yankee Doodle Boy marches up to 1939. Of young James Graham's take-off of Cohan's take-off of F. D. R. in I'd Rather Be Right, Cohan remarked: "The kid...
Again I say isn't there some little old kid game Harvard could learn to play...
Hard-boiled jockeys, with whom he likes to have breakfast at dawn, condescend to call him a "regular guy." To seasoned sportswriters, he is a nice kid with a flair for sportsmanship and a sincere desire to give the public what it wants. At Pimlico he introduced the unprecedented policy of a stake race every day, removed the famed infield hillock that obstructed the spectators' view, and inaugurated the Pimlico Special to determine the Horse of the Year. Last week Turfman Vanderbilt's main problem was: how to make elegant Belmont popular with inelegant New York racing fans...
...October each year Sandburg made no engagements; he sat at his cracker box and wrestled with a bigger job than any army commander ever faced. Fifty years old when he started it, he could summon to his aid a lifetime of singularly useful experience: as a shock-headed Swedish kid in Galesburg, Ill. in the '80s (his father was an immigrant blacksmith) listening to talk of Lincoln and the Civil War; as a harvest hand, a migrant worker, a volunteer in the Spanish-American War; as a young reporter in Milwaukee and Chicago getting ten years of schooling...