Milestones: Feb. 25, 1924

Florenz Ziegfeld: "From Palm Beach went forth a report that I am planning to write the story of my life from my days as manager of Sandow the strong man, down to the present. A headline in the Daily News (Manhattan) : 'Ziegfeld will tell all.'"

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian-Non-Co-operatist: "One Bishop Charles H. Brent, chancellor of Hobart College, N. Y., selected for his students the 'four greatest men of the 20th Cen-tury.' He named: Woodrow Wilson, Cardinal Mercier, Nikolai Lenin and myself."

Marion L. Burton, President of the University of Michigan: "Dissatisfied with the...

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