From near Concordia, Kan., Walter Cyr, young farmer, vanished last week. After three days searchers found him atop a straw stack. Dreading capture, he gulped down poison. Purged by a physician, he explained that he had been so pestered by a life insurance agent that suicide had seemed attractive. . . . The pestiferousness of such agents— porch-climbers, telephoners, buttonholers. classmates—may soon become a matter for the attention of Citizen Calvin Coolidge. Last week he accepted nomination to New York Life Insurance Co.'s board of directors and assignment to the agency committee...
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