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...Said Mr. Coolidge, in effect, to correspondents and photographers: "Let John alone. It's hard enough being the President's son without having everyone thrust it in his face. Let him alone at the summer military camp where he is going...
...Bancroft took his Japan post last November. He was thrust at once into a situation tense with another race problem, into a country where racial ill-will was running strong because of the U. S. Immigration Act of 1924. Then, if ever, he had a difficult task...
This pathetic action is in the eyes of newspapermen one of the heights of nobility-a height to which all aspire if they should ever be thrust into a similar situation. For them, it ranks with the heroism of the telephone girl who sticks to her post in a fire, is parallel to,the devotion to duty of the old Roman who executed his own son for disobeying military commands...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED ? Sandinavian virginity, slum bred, thrust into Italian vino-culture, and the upshot?brilliant acting...
...first place, they really did have a fence at Yale. Heretofore, one was always hounded by the suspicion that that fence was another photographer's trick thrust in, like painted clouds, to give atmosphere. But it was a regular fence after all. The joke...