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...McCrary Jr., 24, handsome onetime sportswriter on The Literary Digest, organizer of the Association of College Editors which it promoted; in Manhattan. For the reforming, vaguely liberal A. C. E.. Mr. McCrary drafted a letter warmly attacking Hearst policies. "Tex" McCrary now works for the New York Mirror, owned by Publisher Hearst, directed by Father-in-Law Brisbane...
...knew it was all right as soon as Russia's Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff took him in to meet Joseph Stalin, in whose face Laval saw much the same calm, woodchuck cunning he sees in his own mirror. The two got along famously, two born listeners who knew what they were doing. Stalin was so pleased with Laval that he prolonged the conversation through luncheon, the first time he had ever broken bread with a Capitalist Foreign Minister. It was also the longest visit he had ever had with a foreign official...
...promptly received the warm sympathy of the leader of Mexico's Federation of Labor, Guillermo Blauncarte, and of Arthur Brisbane's Daily Mirror which printed a strong editorial on "the saddest profession." Claiming a membership of 400 at its organization, the S. D. M. threatened boycott, blacklisting and picketing of all prostitutes who did not join by June 1. Though members of all Mexican unions must abide by an eight-hour working day, Mexican newshawks discovered that President Gonzalez was back at work last week, operating her "ship" twelve hours...
...clock ticked noisily for two minutes while I watched my eyes in the mirror. . . . My eyes did not change. My head felt a little funny. I started to make a notation: 'Three minutes past two o'clock . . , my head. . . .' That was as far as I got. My hand fell upon the table and the pencil rolled to the floor...
...canvas-backed armchair in front of my table. On it I put an alarm clock, my shaving-mirror, a pencil, a memorandum pad, a glass of water and a teaspoonful of the powder. I slipped into the chair, faced the mirror, poured the powder into the water-drank it, looked at the clock, took the pencil and wrote on the pad: 'Took powder one minute past two o'clock.' Then I leaned back and waited for things to happen...