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John McClain, New York Sun ship newshawk, thus reported his interview with Samuel Insull Jr. arriving on the S. S. Majestic:

"Nice trip?" we asked.

"I neither impede nor facilitate the business of the Press," he said, smiling enigmatically.

"Yes," we said, "but this isn't quite the same. We thought you might tell us. . . ."

"I neither impede nor facilitate the business of the Press." he said, this time a little louder.

"But--"

"I neither impede nor facilitate the--"

"This is neither. This is--

"I neither impede nor--

"So long, Mr. Insull. Happy landing to you!"

"I neither impede nor facilitate the business of the Press."

James John ("Jimmy") Walker, one-time Mayor of New York, has recently hid in Manhattan's swank Ambassador Hotel where his good friend Theatrical Promoter A. C. Blumenthal maintains a suite. Colonel Sir Shri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur, Maharajah of Mysore is a "model Indian prince," more interested in reforms than in the jewels, dancing girls, elephants of his important province. Betty Compton is a sleek-haired musicomedy dancer, who had a part in Fifty Million Frenchmen.

Visibly ill of body and nerve. "Jimmy" Walker boarded the Europe-bound S. S. Conte Grande, locked himself away. Betty Compton, his friend, also sailed, with her mother. Aboard were newshawks, crossing to return on the new Italian liner Conte di Savoia. Miss Compton & mother visited the Walker suite. The Walker valet. Greenhouse, deckwalked the Compton dog. Mr. Walker finally emerged from his cabin, gave newshawks an ancient wisecrack about his whiskers growing so long he must shave or buy a fiddle, and denied that he was about to return a visit to the Maharajah of Mysore.

Professor Bertram James Collingwood, University of London physiologist, nephew of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), came lecturing to the U. S. to raise funds for a children's "Wonderland Ward" in St. Mary's Hospital. London, as a memorial to his uncle, and for a similar ward in the Babies Hospital of New York's Medical Center. Said he: "I am hoping to find a prominent American lady who will be Chief Cheshire Cat for the Helpers of Wonderland League which we would like to start here to interest children the two projects. In England Mrs. Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, sister-in-law of Lord Rothermere and of the late Lord Northcliffe, is Chief Cheshire Cat."

Amelia Earhart Putnam, Ladies' Night guest of honor at Manhattan's Explorers Club, prepared to present a blue Persian kitten as club mascot. William J. Morden, Asiatic big-game hunter and explorer, announced that the aviatrix. in accordance with ancient Inca custom, would anoint the cat's feet with oil to prevent its straying from home. Boomed a voice in the rear: ''Bill's wife says to put some oil on his feet!"

Josephus Daniels began a private campaign to change the Democratic party emblem by printing a crowing rooster on the front page of his Raleigh. N. C. News and Observer. Observed he: "The rooster has ten times more style and beauty and clarion call than the donkey."

With $1,000,000 pledged in advance, Banker Harvey Dow Gibson, chairman for the second year of New York City's Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee, formally opened its $15,000,000 drive. His business & professional sub-committees working smoothly. Chairman Gibson went home to his Long Island estate, rode out on a foxhunt, collided with a hanging tree branch. Blood streaming down his face, he hurried to a physician, had the wound stitched up, finished the hunt.

At his Arundel, Sussex home, handsome, patrician John Galsworthy, 65. learned he had been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. To Dr. Irvinq Langmuir, 51, went the Nobel award for Chemistry (see p. 24). Left: by Mrs. Annie Sinton Taft, relict of Publisher Charles Phelps Taft of the Cincinnati Times-Star, sister-in-law of the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft: $5,637,233.41 each to Daughters Jane Taft Ingalls (mother of David Sinton Ingalls, defeated last week for Ohio's Governorship) and Anna Louise Taft Semple: $1,000,000 to the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts. By Allan Pinkerton, late president of famed Pinkerton's National Detective Agency; $1,040,515.18: to Son Robert Allan Pinkerton. By Edmund Roebling, last of famed Bridge-builder John Roebling's four sons (see p. 37); $14,788,160 to twelve nephews and nieces.

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