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Simultaneously down with flu at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital were the Sage of Emporia & wife, the William Allen Whites. They hoped to leave soon for Santa Fe and Estes Park, Cob. to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at the scenes of their honeymoon. Said the Sage, now 75: "The last time, I was a 25-year-old editorial writer. . . . Sallie was a 22-year-old schoolteacher. We had a railroad pass from the paper." Said Mrs. White, commenting on the separate rooms which kept them from nurse-forbidden talk: "You might think we'd be talked out after...
Henry Louis Mencken admits that "the resurrection men" have had him in their "animal house"-his way of saying that he has been in the hospital. Illness has not prevented the Baltimore sage, who believes that beer is very close to the meaning of life, from drawing off a third foaming, savory volume of reminiscences.* As much as he loves beer Mencken loves "competence ... in any art or craft from adultery to zoology." This book is further testimony to his own competence as the nation's comical, warm-spirited, outstanding village atheist. He still stands ready to convulse, while...
Time for All Things. In Topeka, R. C. Leinbach, who said he had been engaged to the late Anna Belle Sage since 1914, sued her estate for the return of the engagement ring he said he had finally given...
...East burning with advice and criticism for the Administration (TIME, Nov. 2), political insiders have known that he and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were at the parting of the ways. Last week the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond put the open secret into print-with a sage analysis of the causes and likely effects...
...think straight because of Durwood alcohol I just drank," mumbled the Ashley pale Sage, "but things will probably get pretty Savage in the Stadium today. Whether the score is Harlow, I predict that Jawn will open the flood Gates, and De Angelis will be singing over the Bear's body tonight. Harvard 14, Brown...