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Author Thomas Mann, famed German novelist and Nobel Prizeman, orated in Weimar on Goethe last week, though not in such towering terms as were used by President Julius Peterson of the Goethe Society in a broadcast heard with delight by all Germany. "Goethe was the greatest poet of all time!" declared President Peterson. "He was the forerunner of Charles Darwin in evolution theory; he was the forerunner of General Goethals in foreseeing the construction of the Panama Canal; and he was the forerunner of Prince von Bismarck in visualizing the creation of a united Germany...
...thing that strikes me awfully funny about college boys is that they always want to be known as men", said Sidney Mann, light opera and specialty singer at the Mayfair in a recent interview. "I see them here at the Mayfair acting as though they were practically grandparents already, and yet they are not really any more than just overgrown kids. I believe in keeping young as long as possible, and it positively pains me to see a lot of people still young trying to be something which they will regret being a little later...
...gorilla had ever lived in captivity in the U. S. His body was taken to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; his brain will be kept in the Smithsonian Institution, beneficiary of a $3,000 insurance policy on N'Gi's life. Sadly said Zoo Director William M. Mann to the zoo's head keeper: "Well, Blackburn, if we ever get another gorilla, give it a number instead of a name and don't let yourself love...
...widely famed character is Editor Keller. But few socialites of the gaslit era were unaware of Col. Mann, who regularly gorged himself on gargantuan meals at the Lotos Club or at Delmonico's, kept an expensive house on Riverside Drive and a summer home at Lake George, strutted about at opera and horse show, a conspicuous figure with his whiskers, flaming red tie, frock coat, plug hat, and heavy walking stick which could make a highly effective bludgeon...
...last week. But he surely would have emitted his favorite snort of satisfaction to see researchers in the New York Public Library poring over his famed Fads & Fancies?an ultra-elaborate "Who's Who" of society for which the subjects listed paid staggering "subscriptions." Twice during his life Col. Mann offered the book to the Library; twice, to his indescribable indignation, it was refused...