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Show THE HALL OF FAME. Robert W. Chambers, the author, is a. bridgc-whist enthusiast. - f Secretary Root is thcyonly-Cabinct member who wears a silk hat down to work every day. Harry Leon Wilson, the novelist and playwright, wjas editor of Puck "Jfcscvcral ycats. P William A. Braldty, one of the big theatrical .producers and managers vol? New York, focgan life as a newsboy in San Francisco. Senator Hemcnway, of Indiana, once dug ditches in Boonville, the village vil-lage he still lives in; and Senator Bcveridgc ftom the same state, was n boolc agent, and a good one. Frank H. Hitchcock, who is managing man-aging Secretary Taft's campaign in Washington, is a voluminous author. He wrote about forty pamphlets oil foreign trade when he was in the Department of Agriculture. Representative Moore, of Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, went to Panama) and Cuba, with Speaker Cannon and his party la ;t spring, and, when he came back, wrote a book about it called, With Speaker Cannon Through, the Tropic?. Trop-ic?. The Speaker got a finely bound copy and Moore got good commits assignments. Saturday Post. |