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...monumental biography Mr. Damon quotes the remark of Elsie Sergeant: "Amy Lowell was a dynasty in herself." To the reader who has won his way through the more than 700 large and closely-written pages of the volume this observation will seem no exaggeration. He will see that it was incumbent on the biographer of Amy Lowell to write the history of a literary epoch. The full measure of literary and especially poetical activity in the United States between 1912 and 1925 will have been borne in upon him and probably will have astonished him. For this...
...owner of Pathfinder was bustling, 48-year-old Managing Editor Sevellon Brown of the Providence Journal and Bulletin. Inheriting a share in Pathfinder last February from his father-in-law, the late Senate Sergeant-at-Arms David Sheldon Barry,* who bought in with Editor Mitchell early in 1900, shrewd Mr. Brown lost no time in acquiring enough Pathfinder stock for full control. On Pathfinder's staff went Mr. Brown's sons Barry and Sevellon III. Pathfinder's youthful new staff proposed to lop off "deadwood" in its 1,129,481 circulation, oust questionable advertising. Editorially they promised...
...Sergeant-at-Arms Barry lost his Capitol job when he wrote in the New Outlook that not many Senators accept cash bribes (TIME...
Next Herr Greiser, with the jerky motions of a Prussian drill sergeant, advanced upon "Tony" Eden, seized his hand, shook it vigorously, gave the Nazi salute with upraised arm individually to "Tony" and two other members of the Council, whirled on his heel and began to stalk out. Hearing snickers from the 80 journalists present, Nazi Greiser thumbed his nose at the press box. This evoked a mighty uproar which puzzled the Council because its members could not see the German's gesture but only his broad back. Up jumped the Manchester Guardian's Robert Dell, President...
...Technically, the distinction of being the first man to earn the nation's highest award for valor goes to Frederick W. Gerber, Sergeant Major of Engineers from 1839 to 1871, who was cited "for distinguished gallantry in many actions . . . covering a period of 32 years." However, the decoration did not exist before 1862. -ED.] These awards were to be issued for acts, "above and beyond duty," and I have no doubt that many were well-merited. However it must have been quite a shock to the 30 who escorted President Lincoln's remains to have been decorated...