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...gather increasing entertainment each week, from TIME'S letters, especially from such diverting ones as that of John H. Hammond Jr., (May 7). This lad must be very Junior indeed; the sophomoric conceit fairly oozes from him. The prospect of your losing Mr. Hammond Jr.'s patronage, "unless you change your style or start a phonographic record department" must present a saddening alternative. Incidentally, our Junior's use of such verbal banalities as "quite a few," "Variety has far more than you" and so on, emphasizes the nerve of him, in assuming the role of Mentor...
Ripping out a brace of terse orders, the King of Kings dynamically prepared to lead an army into Luristan. But someone must reign at home, in Teheran, during his absence. A happy thought! His Majesty would make the 10-year-old Valiahd temporarily Regent of Persia. The lad should do something to earn his $2,000,000 a year...
Swiftly the substance of these ideas was carried out. His Majesty went before the Majlis (Parliament) and presented to that assembly as Regent the boy, Shahpur Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. The lad, trained to drill and play war games from infancy, made a trim, soldierly appearance. The Majlis cheered him and he held his head high. But afterwards his nether lip trembled as his father bade him goodbye and set forth, jauntily, to lead an army into Luristan...
...short test flight was hastily arranged and an Irishman climbed into the seat beside Pilot Koehl and the controls. Commandant James Fitzmaurice it was, and, as befitted an adventurous Irish lad of 30 with a flair for the romantic and a record for the daring, he was head of the Air Force of the Irish Free State. He too wanted to fly across the Atlantic; had, indeed, made a start last September with Capt. Robert H. Mclntosh in the Fokker monoplane Princess Xenia, only to turn back after three hours' weary bicker with the winds...
...village lad went West, to teach physics in the University of Nebraska, but, when he branched out into contracting, his star rose in the East and he definitely made Manhattan his base of operations in 1890. From his great house on Riverside Drive he can look across the mile wide Hudson River and perhaps dreams of bridging it. With "J. G.," who has now turned 60, lives "J. D.," his son, James Dugald White, 38. "J. D." is a director in all three of his father's companies, but avoids the connotations of "engineer" and describes himself...