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...hers, as defense counsel. She was Mrs. Mary Belle Spencer, crusading Chicago attorney. Last year gaunt white-haired Mrs. Spencer made news by having Dancer Sally Rand arrested for indecent exposure. Mrs. Spencer has brought up two young daughters on a strictly self-expressionistic plan. Once, when they threw their Christmas tree out a window, their mother recalls that "it was hard not to say anything. But I didn't even turn my head." (TIME, Sept...
Intending to surprise her German parents, whom she had not seen for eight years, Stenographer Sittell recently threw up her Manhattan job with the law firm of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed where she had taken dictation from Count Rene when he worked in their office. Sailing for Paris, she got a job with Count René before proceeding to surprise her parents. Last week she arrived at Schoenberg, a tiny German customs depot on the Saar border and, as usual, said what she conscientiously thinks...
...First and most famed was Robert Treat Paine who signed the Declaration of Independence. His son and namesake became a poet. From the day he answered in couplet the satirical thrust of a classmate "his blessed ruin was inevitable." He fell in with a theatrical company. His father threw him out of the house when he married the leading lady. He took to drink, drifted into poverty, died in the attic of his father's house. The best Bostonians attended his funeral. Gilbert Stuart painted his portrait from a death mask...
...during the War Major Patrick Jay Hurley jumped into a German trench with a raiding party, beat down the defenders in a battle of bayonets. A wounded German soldier named M. Struver seized a hand grenade, threw it at Raider Hurley, wounded...
...baton. The Harvard bass drum tipped over at a crucial moment. Incongruous in the smart Bowl crowd were two members of a traveling circus, a giant and a midget in a tall silk hat. In the interval after the third period, a spectator ran the length of the field, threw his hat over the Harvard goal posts, snickered at the crowd...