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...active service. The name J. C. Willever has appeared on every Western Union blank since 1916-more than 5,000,000,000 times. In 1910, when the late Theodore N. Vail blazed into Western Union for a brief term as president, Mr. Willever al ready had the longest service record of any major executive. For years he had been trying io sell the Night Letter to his company. Mr. Vail let him have his way, added the Day Letter himself. The service was a great success. Since then...
There are so many jokers wild in Absalom, Absalom! that most readers will feel that the cards have been hopelessly stacked against them. It is the strangest, longest, least readable, most infuriating and yet in some respects the most impressive novel that William Faulkner has written. At first glance it is so pompous in its language and so ridiculous in its theme that readers accustomed to honest dealing will call at once for a new hand. Its action takes place simultaneously on three levels, and although Author Faulkner includes a map, a chronology and a cast of characters to help...
...Long Island," as an intimate member of H.R.H.'s entourage remarked at the time. Efforts to extricate their eldest son from this fast and loose international set were unremittingly pursued by King George and Queen Mary, one of their methods being to send Edward of Wales on the longest possible Empire tours. A predecessor of Mrs. Simpson remembers how H.R.H. left her for one of these tours of duty, sob bing bitterly, and she has the innumerable cablegrams he sent her while abroad, many dealing with the daily doings of the little dog she gave him to remember...
...office last week, Grocer Grimes had the satisfaction of sifting through a stack of congratulatory messages in recognition of the oak he had nurtured from his original Acorn members. He had telegrams from Illinois' Governor Henry Horner, Senators Burton K. Wheeler and Millard E. Tydings, and Alf Landon. Longest of all, the Landon tele gram was dispatched from Topeka, Kans., although Mr. Landon that day was only a few blocks away in Chicago's Congress Hotel. Wrote Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House: "You have demonstrated . . . that problems which can not be solved by individual effort...
...Five minutes before the closing whistle, Traff Hicks attempted a field goal from his 30 yard line, and missed the uprights by just a few feet. From then on, the scrimmage moved around the field with the rapidity of a soccer ball, the secondary of both teams making their longest gains on intercepted passes...