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...Done Him Wrong is the same tale of an 1898 Bowery flower that was picked often but did not wilt. Impersonated by Mae West, she thrives and collects diamonds with each picking. Mae is picked up by the story as the chatelaine of Noah Beery, a trusting old fellow who runs a cabaret and modest little white slave business. Having a bit of time to spare Mae befriends a young would-be suicidess, visits some ex-beaus who are taking the cure at Sing Sing, juggles with the attentions of Gigolo Gilbert Roland, Racketeer David Landau and Salvation Army Captain...
...elect Francis Henry SHoemaker displayed several large bruises. Cried he: "If you don't investigate, I'll do something about it when I get to Washington." Mr. Shoemaker said that while under the influence of an opiate administered for a tooth extraction, he was taken to the wrong hospital, forcibly detained, beaten, handcuffed, straitjacketed. Govenor Olson wanted to know how he got away...
...park? 2) Who is Parker? 3) What did he want? 4') What was Pigeons and People all about? Only positive fact is the first-rate characterization of Parker as a superior indigent, expert at crying, bragging, weaseling, bullying, philosophizing, face-saving and putting everybody else in the wrong...
...staff men who have found that the wisest men in Washington on legislative prospects and administrative policies are lobbyists. They scrupulously canvass the most potent spokesmen on both sides, take time to gauge the political force behind each, check it, make their forecasts. Editor Kiplinger keeps score on right & wrong guesses, computes his staff's average 85% right. Single important piece of legislation so far passed by this Congress was the Philippine independence bill, the Kiplinger prediction to the contrary not- withstanding...
...pendulum-swing of modern taste are the admiring references to Tennyson and Browning, frequent quotations from them. As an example of unconscious literature Huxley gives the farewell note of a suicide: "No wish to die. One of the best of sports, which they all knew. Not in the wrong, the boys will tell you. This...