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...world when a pale-browed, black-haired dreamer took another half-bottle a hundred years ago. He was a precocious lad. Scarcely out of diapers, he stood on a table declaiming verse, inspired by a glass of liquor. Later trips to the bottle heightened his fancy in more weird and horrible manner. They won him an all-time record for the number of square yards of flesh he has made creep...
...were killed in automobile accidents in the smoke pall. Airplane operations were resumed only last week. Wild life suffered badly. Reported the United Press last week: "Bird life including every known species from sparrow to mammoth owls present a pitiful sight with screaming and chattering. The noise is deafening -weird sounds around occasional water holes where wild life flocks and fights for existence. Waters formerly productive of fish are now barren, the fish left baking in the sun on the banks. Suwannee (of song fame), Satilla, Alapaha, and Setto Rivers are now mere excavations with occasional mudholes, wild and domestic...
...Indianapolis two policemen heard weird noises issuing from a mail box. Deciding there might be a bomb inside, they found a postman, kept a safe distance until he opened the box. Inside was a litter of newborn kittens...
...Broadway, a loud scandal whispered in file copies of Variety, a legend forgotten in the smoke that curled out of spittoons in the Claridge Hotel from cigarets that had gold tips and monograms. An epic and a joke, it has made Selznick the name of a dynasty in the weird peerage of the cinema industry. It helped give the industry its reputation. It concerns a Japanese valet who learned how to pickle herring, a girl who was born in a Pennsylvania coal town and killed herself in Paris, a gold watch, a $50,000 messenger boy, the Tsar of Russia...
...despite the hiring of mercenary or publicity-hungry clergymen to write daily editorials. But on the theory that a million circulation-no matter what its class- will force advertisers to buy space, the Comet and its competitors push on, trying to outdo each other in nauseous antics. And that weird battle robs Editor Peters of his bitterest competitor and closest friend-Editor Anthony Wayne of the Lantern. Here Author Gauvreau makes no attempt to obscure the figure of the late Editor Philip Payne of the Mirror, to whom the book is dedicated. Beaten at every turn by Comet (as Payne...