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...Landonites could not blame Nature for all the things that went wrong. In few places were the Governor's parades properly arranged beforehand. In Chicago application for a parade permit was not made until too late to organize police supervision. In Detroit the Republican parade was so dawdling that the Nominee's car had to pull out of line and run ahead to the point where cheering crowds were waiting. At Detroit also his speaking stand was in centre field from which it took a full second or two for his voice to reach the grandstand, another second...
...disclosures of last week came as a logical and orderly sequence to events going back nearly 20 years. The present King, just after the War, made a first trip to the U. S. of a most exemplary character. On his second trip "he got in with the wrong sort of society people on Long Island," as an intimate member of H.R.H.'s entourage remarked at the time. Efforts to extricate their eldest son from this fast and loose international set were unremittingly pursued by King George and Queen Mary, one of their methods being to send Edward of Wales...
Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll are the couple who gratify the terror-hungry spectators with the highly embarrassing jams they get into. It's all the outcome of Madeleine's getting started on the wrong side. To please her flabby, moribund father (Porter Hall), she agrees, in bitter conflict with the latent notability, in her, to lure Gary and his belt full of the people's money into the grasping yellow hands of General Yang, war lord and fiendish oppressor of some unnamed Chinese province. Before this unhappy state of affairs is set aright by a drunken man's knife...
...right again when he says that professionalism in "shamateur football" must be brought to light. He is wrong, however, in predicting, the necessary formation of a professional intercollegiate league. If professionalism is confessed to, eradicated, and standard eligibility rules are adopted, amateur football games can be played, Further, equally large crowds will be attracted as long as the teams are on a fairly even level...
...first snow yesterday just past noon and the flakes melting before they touched the sidewalks. The Vagabond busy as the squirrels in the Yard, leafing through his Chaucer, reading J. Q. Adams: "Chief Pre-Shakespearian Dramas," (Shakespearian always looks wrong after a year of Kitty's Shakespere), listening to Crane Brinton in History 34a, taking a brisk walk along the Charles, breathing October...