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...Chief credit for the astute political move went to Timothy Healy, Free State Governor General. "Tim" as he was known in the old days at Westminster, is one of the cleverest as well as one of the most vituperative politicians alive, whereas most af the Free State's political talent is young and relatively inexperienced. With almost certain defeat staring Mr. Cosgrave in the face, the Governor General would certainly point out the advantages of taking the decisive step of forcing the parties into a new contest, now that the country is believed to be well aroused to the gravity...
Sirs: I note in TIME, July 18 a letter from Miss Justine Agnes Clementine La Vie extolling the talent of Miss Florence Mills. Miss La Vie in her letter mentions enclosing a poem on the subject of her admiration-a poem which your footnote declares was top long to print. I should be very happy if you would send me a copy of Miss La Vie's poem as I think I could find use for it in the pages of our magazine...
...golf course is built. Summer homes grow up around it. Parents take up the game, turning their offspring loose to paddle for themselves?until some of the offspring (Alexa Stirling, Perry Adair, Rob Jones) can beat the parents. Then comes the problem of developing young talent without letting it become infant-prodigious. Rob Jones's paternal grandfather refused, even when discovered in galleries, to admit to any interest in the 13-year-old club champion, the 14-year-old state champion or the 15-year-old Southern chaimpion. Not until 1923 when Jones Jr. was 21 and about...
...Excluded Mourners. Mlle. Helene Vacarescu, a Rumanian poetess who has received the French Cross of the Legion of Honor in recognition of her talent, was informed last week at Paris that if she sought to attend the funeral of King Ferdinand she would be stopped by Rumanian frontier guards...
...remember seven books written, of which four-The Pot Boils, The Pitiful Wife, Three Kingdoms and now, The Lovely Ship are inferior to little that the last decade has produced. She would be justified in feeling that her education in London University, her journalistic and advertising preliminaries, have molded talent to a secure success...