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...fists, slung mud. Of his onetime intimate, Dr. Robertson, Mr. Thompson said: "The doc is slinging mud. I'm not descending to personalities, but let me tell you if you want to see a nasty sight you; watch Doc Robertson eating in a restaurant. Eggs in his whiskers, soup on his vest: you'd think the doc got his education driving a garbage wagon...
Chang Tso-lin is a great lord in the good old way. He favors swallows' nest soup, tugs delightedly at his large ears when pleased, has his own officers or their wives spitted on sharp stakes when displeased, and keeps a likely string of concubines. At Peking, Chang reaffirmed to correspondents his violent antipathy to Bolshevism, and roundly declared that his troops were hastening southward and would drive the Nationalists out of Shanghai. At Shanghai Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek told news- gatherers that "as soon as possible" his armies would press on to capture Peking. Will Chang fight...
...tour of the prominent newstands of the Square brought forth some interesting facts on undergraduate taste in periodical literature. The most popular magazine is the "Saturday Evening Post", even though its stories have to fight for breath in a sea of advertisements for hosiery, automobiles, and canned soup. "Liberty", in spite of its attempts at publicity, sells only one copy to every three of the "Saturday Evening Post", although it leads the other prominent weeklies, the "Nation" and the "New Republic", those two tin pins sticking into the fleshy side of conservatism...
...other fields. Dr. Georges Clemenceau became a War leader of France; Dr. Leonard Wood is Governor General of the Philippines; Dr. Hubert Work, U. S. Secretary of the Interior; Dr. Royal Samuel Copeland, U. S. Senator from New York.* Dr. John T. Dorrance (see p. 18) entered business (Campbell Soup); Dr. Attilio H. Giannini is president of the East River National Bank, New York (see p. 28). Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle and Dr. Arthur Schnitzler are unequivocally authors, whereas Dr. Joseph Collins and Dr. Richard Cabot make authorship complementary to medicine.* Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur quit medicine to take...
Elinor Dorrance, Campbell soup heiress: "I last week arrived at Cherbourg on S. S. Berengaria, after abandoning my recent venture in work in my father's factories (TIME, Nov. 8). I announced that I had given up the work because my father disliked the publicity that attended...