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■By E van s R o d g ers“Champagne Cholly,.” by Eve Brown, published by E.
P. D u tto n a n d Co. ($3.75) is the story of the life and times
ol M a u ry P au l, known to millions of readers of Hearst
n ew sp a p ers as Cholly Knickerbocker.
Until his death in 1942, Maury
knowledge of foreign tongues.
Paul, society; editor deluxe, was a
For its purpose it is an ideal
fabulous man who made a career medium. Its system is clear and
of spotlighting (he lives— misspent concise; its alphabet a matter of
and otherwise—of New York so only hours to learn. If it can avoid
the fate of being ignored, it is
ciety, and made them love it!
potentially invaluable and one of
In her book of his deign,
the great contributions to inter-!
Eve Brown,' who learned in
change of ideas among nations and |
vective a n d s o c i e t y from
peoples.
Maury Paul during many hec
The booklet is published by the
tic years of working with him,
W o r 1 d Language Foundation a t!
dishes out some of the star2400 16th St., N. W., Washington,!
studded goo, the jeering col
D. C., and sells for 50
a:
umns, the gossip and scandal
copy.
he relished, and the diseased
' ' C. K.
family skeletons he dusted off
for the public to view.
M i s s Brown gives a sparkling
picture of Maury P a u l in vivid
close-ups of the changing scene—
‘ ■from pink teas and dinner parties
■Ifor two hundred, first nights at
. [the opera, t h e famous feuds inj
Mwhich lie indulged, as well as items
*iabout the Vanderbilts, the Astors, [
WASHINGTON
THE
the Goulds a n d the other first
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S u n d a y , J a n u a ry 9 , 1944
•{families of New York which bub-j
' |bled into, print.
y. This story of Maury Paul is as j
Ijuicy a morsel as some of his., col-1
’ jumns, and a couple of hours of en-i
Itertaining reading.
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—T. R. L.
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NEW ALPHABET
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A new phonetic alphabet, de
signed to teach any language on
e a r t h within a space of a few
weeks and to teach illiterates to
read and write their own language
in a matter of days has finally
come into being.
It is the Global Alphabet, de
veloped by Oklahoma’s blind ex
senator, Robert O w e n, and ac
claimed with any number of su
perlatives by leading authorities
in the field of phonetics and lin
guistics.
Sen. Owen heads the World
L a n g u a g e Foundation in
Washington, which is devoted
to the spread of the alphabet
as a necessary aid to the re
moval of ignorance and illiter
acy, to t h e spread of Basic
English and, through bi-lingual texts, to s p r e a d the
Robert L. Owen
Sends President
'Global Alphabet
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1A former United States Senator
from Oklahoma sought President
Roosevelt's aid yesterday in pro
moting acceptance of “ a global al
phabet” which, the author said,
could be made a world language
iand increase production of 60 per
cent of the world’s inhabitants by
” 400 or 500 per cent.”
Robert L. Owen, now a Washj ington attorney, made public a let|ter he had written to the President
describing his alphabet as "a
! mechanism by which the English
language can be taught as a world
language.”
The phonetic stenographic al
phabet, written by sound symbols
and not by spelling, consists of 13
consonants, six coiiipound conso
nants and 18 vowel sounds which
Owen .,said have "one immutable
primary sound of the human voice
with no silent letter.'
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