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...Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, in search of a proper weekly compliment to his hero, President Coolidge, fitted last week into the mozaic of his daily column an epigram: "This is the land of gold and the administration of golden silence...
Last week, the Democrats of Connecticut, in search of a worthy opponent to Senator Hiram Bingham, offered the nomination to Arthur Twining Hadley, 70, President Emeritus of Yale University, who had been a Democrat before the days of Bryan and "free silver." He refused, said he agreed on the whole with the policies of the present administration...
...boat and may have escaped. b) His corpse has been found (in various localities). For the past month one Frank O. Power, journalistic free lance, has been selling articles to London papers, also the New York World and many another news organ, describing how, after three years of patient search, he discovered and identified the corpse of Earl Kitchener in a Norwegian cemetery. Last week Mr. Power's despatches became a sensation, even the New York Times gave him a front page column. He had deposited, he said, the body of Earl Kitchener with London morticians. Prime Minister Baldwin...
...whole dramatic library has flowed from the devious but prodigiously brilliant pen of Professor Luigi Pirandello. His academic intimates know him as an erudite philosopher philologist. But to the world he is the playwright of Six Characters in Search of an Author. Last week he contrived in actuality at his Roman villa a drama as "Pirandellic" as any of his numerous plays-famed for his knack of creating characters (like his Henry IV) who are not what they seem. Early in the week Signor Pirandello had received a visit from two friends with a mutual grievance: Playwright Massimo Bontempelli...
...their search for characteristic poses, newspaper cartoonists last week might have pictured the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee with a budget book in his left hand, a batch of appropriation bills in his right, and his legs wrapped around an adding machine. Congress had left him to his mid-July pastime of reporting analytically on a fat $4,409,377,454.15, which is to nourish the Federal Government for the fiscal year...