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Vandenberg has a knack for putting losers out on top. When he was a reporter for the Grand Rapids Herald, Collier's Weekly hired him as editorial writer at $75 a week, a princely income at the turn of the century. But he quit Collier's and came back to The Herald at $18 a week on a hunch. Soon after that The Herald, in new hands, was shy an editor. Vandenberg hung up his hat in the editor's office, brushed his cigar ashes in the editor's tray and announced himself as the new boss. The owner...
...France with the engineers and became chief of the A. E. F.'s Purchasing Division. That gave him contact with General Dawes. When General Dawes grappled dramatically with the first budget in 1921, Col. Roop, as a chief assistant, grappled with him, without the dramatics. When Director Dawes quit in 1922, Assistant Roop quit. When Mr. Dawes went last spring to Santo Domingo, he recalled Budgetman Roop to his side to assist in preparing a financial system in that little republic. When General Dawes returned to be ambassador to Britain, Col. Roop was left behind to put their Santo Domingan...
Somebody heard little Walter Winchell sing in a Harlem cinema house when he was 13, found him a sing-song job in Gus Edwards' Newsboy Sextet. That year, "incorrigible," "stupid," he quit school. Soon he was touring with a "gel," applauded by a few and egged by many as he hoofed and sang. As his voice grew deeper, his singing grew worse. After being laid off, in Durham. N. C., he fed chickens on a boxcar to get back to Manhattan. During the War he was Sailor Winchell...
...Bill Hart, famed for his narrow eyes, long upper lip, big hat, quit making western pictures three years ago. Some people said he was writing his autobiography, others that quarrels with his wife had broken his heart. He lived on a ranch somewhere and was only seen in Los Angeles one afternoon when he went to the funeral of a cowboy friend of his. Last week he signed with Hal Roach to make an all-talking horse-and-pistol picture...
Prof. Rogers urged the students to quit eating in one-arm lunch rooms and hanging around hotels and dance halls. He told them they should join the University Club, where they could live and eat like gentlemen and mix with the kind of people they should mix with...