"Blum, you're a jolly good fellow!
"BLUM, YOU'RE A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW!
"BLUM, YOU'RE A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW!
"THAT, nobody can deny!"
Ralph D. Blumenfeld sat down, flushed, last week at a banquet in London, when the above quoted chorus was chanted heartily by five British Cabinet ministers,* several earls, a great many editors, and Michael Arlen.
A quaint feature of the banquet was that, although Mr. Blumenfeld was born in the U. S., not one-tenth of 1% of his fellow countrymen have the slighest idea who he is. Londoners know that "Blum" has been editor of the Daily Express since 1904. He came to London...
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