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...under any misapprehension." Possibly as M. de Polignac walked into his cabin, No. 203, he glanced at the card on the door of cabin 205. There, written in a steward's slanting scrawl, was the name: M. Clarence Darrow. Count de Polignac generally speaks English with only a trace of a French accent. Nevertheless the Graphic reported his final gangplank words as: "Those who ordered me, Count de Polignac, to ze jail have trespass on my honaire. . . . "But here in America, when I am humiliated, I can do nozzing." "Maybe zey zink zis is ze joke...
Peculiar was the newspaper treatment of the Graustein-Patton marriage. Here was surely a saga of romance without a trace of scandal. Here was modern Manhattan's version of the Prince and Cinderella-a syncopated setting for an ageless theme. Yet the story was announced (two months after the wedding) in Zit's Weekly, theatrical trade-paper. Later the tabloids carried it. But solid, standard papers-Times, World, Herald Tribune, Sim, Post-ignored the week's-and one of the year's-greatest human interest story...
...were three favorites: Cragadour, Mr Jinks, and Lord Derby's Hunter's Moon. A few people bet on a horse called Walter Gay, receiving 100 to 8 odds. They were later proved wise because Walter Gay came in second. In Belfast, Ireland was circulated a message which nobody could trace to its source: "Trigo will do the Trigo is Irish-reared, Irish-owned (Mr. William Barnett, corn-broker) Many Belfastians bet on Trigo, odds: 33 to 1. They too were proved wise. Trigo...
...that "the Catholic religion was born in Palestine but became Catholic in Rome. If it had remained in Palestine it would probably have been one of the many sects which nourish in that heated atmosphere like the essence of therapeutics, and it would have nickered out without leaving a trace...
...breasts of everyone sensitive enough to experience the shock of useless death. The circumstances of the present outrage are such as to awaken even more intense sympathy. The facts that the victim was accompanied by his family, was a full fifteen miles from the border, and possessed not a trace of alcohol in the car, all combine to awaken popular recognition of an affair, the barest facts of which are hideous...