Secret of the They Reccens and the Times Myth
A Chicago Record piece quotes a prominent MP explaining how the London Times editorial page is assembled. Editors assign topics to external writers who produce leaders for pay, while the editor in chief controls the topics. The article derides the Times as a “great bumbug” and an authority built on mystery rather than in-house authors.
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London Times
M. P
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Times
Marquis of Salisbury
Home Affairs
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Sranary
the Times
Novelists Blunder Brings Back Dead Hero Rocambole
A Paris author Ponson du Terrail forgot he had killed Rocambole in a previous installment and revived the character in a later feuilleton. The mishap is noted as one of literature history’s oddities. The American Girls’ Club of Berlin held a bazaar in Kurfürstenstrasse, a conspicuous pecuniary and social success.
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Ocambole
Rocambole
Boston Transcript
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Kurfurtenstrasse
Astor to wed English titled lady in coming nuptials
William Waldorf Astor plans to marry a young English titled woman of old nobility who is rich and beautiful. The marriage is rumored to follow a mourning period, with potential naturalization as a British subject and possible knighthood after a Parliament career. Historical notes compare to other aristocratic matches and mention related family connections.
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William Waldorf Astor
England
Society Sheet of London
Roosevelts
Bogland
Alfred Montgomery
Louisiana
Philadelphia
Trenton
de Montgomerie
Astor
Ashmond Bartlett-Coutta
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