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...Bold President Harding attended a showing of the Dempsey-Carpentier fight film at the home of Publisher Edward B. ("Ned") McLean of the Washington Post. "Of course, we all knew that the law had been broken in the transportation of the film to Washington. It was amusing to see how every one who was there joined the purity squad when the news leaked shown." out that the film had been shown...
...week Col. Charles R. Forbes, head of the Veterans' Bureau (see p. 18), described a poker party held in the White House library in 1921. The players were President Harding, Will H. Hays, Albert Lasker (shipping board chairman), Harry Daugherty (Attorney General), Harry S. New (Postmaster General), Edward B. ("Ned") McLean (publisher of the Washington Post) and Mrs. McLean...
...During the game," said Col. Forbes, "Ned McLean announced that Jack Johnson, the prize fighter, was to be discharged from the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, and either Ned or Albert Lasker exclaimed, 'Why, his old mother used to work for me and he has a fine of $1000 hanging over him and can't pay it.' Ned McLean said: 'Albert, I'll give $500 and you give $500 and we will pay his fine.' The President spoke up: 'Don't let that worry you: I'll remit the fine,' and the game went...
...terrific storm; that's how he got his name. He was nearly killed several years ago when he reared and struck his head going into a box car. It was just midnight on New Year's Eve some New Year present, eh wot? The other two are Ned and Johnny. Those horses are just like children to me look! there they are," and he of the ludicrous spotted face gazed tenderly down into the courtyard below, where four magnificent white charges, with dappled flanks, champed and pawed the ground impatiently...
...program: The Good Hope, from the Dutch by Herman Heijermans; Two Plus Two Make Five, from the Danish by Gustav Weid; Invitation au Voyage, by Jean Jacques Bernard; a U. S. comedy not yet selected; Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, in which Clare Eames, formerly with the Theatre Guild (Ned McCobb's Daughter, Juarez and Maximilian) will alternate in the title role with Miss Le Gallienne...