Henry Cabot Lodge, senior U. S. Senator from Massachusetts: "In a cartoon labeled 'I Hate All Presidents,' Rollin Kirby of The New York World pictured me pointing to a placard-- MY ACHIEVEMENTS--which read: 'I struck down Woodrow Wilson, I stultified Warren Harding, I betrayed Calvin Coolidge.'"

Andrew W. Mellon, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury: "The Nation reviewed my book, Taxation: The People's Business. Said the reviewer: 'Mr. Mellon knows naught of economics and less of the shifting and incidence of taxation. His book omits a large part of the relevant facts, its reasoning is bad and its practical conclusions in general are dead wrong.'"

Max Oser, Swiss ex-riding master: "According to despatches from Switzerland, the daughter born to Mrs. Mathilda McCormick Oser (TIME, May 19, MILESTONES) has been named Anneta."

Jack Dempsey, champion pugilist: "From Los Angeles, for the Hearst press, I wrote: 'The story sent out of this town to the effect that I am approaching the border line of physical wreckage is apple sauce--nothing but apple sauce, boys. . . . If any of the challenging kids--Harry Wills, Luis Firpo or Tom Gibbons--have an idea that I am not in shape to knock them dizzy, they are hereby invited to jump out to Los Angeles . . . I need sparring partners.'"

Nora Bayes, famed actress: "I sailed for England, there to make my home. To reporters I stated that my three adopted daughters, aged four, five and six, would attend English schools. Said I: 'Too much melting-pot in America! . . . English girls are trained to have quite as much independence as American girls, but they do not adopt the annoying jazzy qualities so popular with their sisters here.'"