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Judge Elbert Henry Gary: "I like to talk about Wheaton, Ill., where I spent my early boyhood. So I gave myself double pleasure last week by entertaining Harold E. ("Red") Grange, Wheaton-raised professional football player, at dinner at my Manhattan home."
A. Atwater Kent, manufacturer: "Last week, I myself administered final tests to the millionth radio set made in my Philadelphia factory since 1922. Addressing my assembled employes, I said: 'It is difficult for me to find words with which to express my pride and gratification in this moment. I feel as if I wanted to hip-hip-hurrah. I want to throw my hat up in the air. I am happy. . . .' "
George Fisher Baker, 86: "The four richest men in the U. S. are Andrew Mellon, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., myself. My potency comes from my chairmanship of the First National Bank of Manhattan and my directorates in numerous corporations, notably U. S. Steel, New York Central and American Telephone & Telegraph. So when there is a rumor that I am ill, Wall Street becomes excited. There was such a rumor last week. A reporter came hurrying to interview me. He peered at every wrinkle in my old face. He ogled every hair of my mutton-chop whiskers. 'Are you ill, Mr. Baker?' he queried. 'No,' I said. 'Why, I had lunch with a pretty woman today.' '
Roald Amundsen, polar explorer: "Disgruntled, again, by statements by General Umberto Nobile of Italy, companion and flight officer of Lincoln Ellsworth and myself last spring when we all crossed the North Pole in the dirigible Norge, I cabled resignations for Mr. Ellsworth and myself from honorary membership in the Norway Aero Club, under whose sponsorship Colonel Nobile is lecturing in the U. S. Colonel Nobile, grieved, protested his latest remarks had been fair. Mr. Ellsworth, surprised by my action, said: 'I have no bone to pick,' but approved his proxy resignation, saying of me: 'He and I are as one person.' Only the day before, Mr. Ellsworth had been decorated by Norway."
President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey: "One of my semi-official news organs recently referred to the day when the Allied troops quietly withdrew from Constantinople (TIME, Oct. 15, 1923) in accordance with the Treaty of Lausanne. It spoke of 'that imperishable day when our heroic warriors drove from Constantinople the Allies, those disgusting savages, the scum of 72 nations.' '
Princess Chivekiar, onetime wife of King Fuad of Egypt: "I am for the fourth time a bride. Last week students of politics noted with humorous speculation that after I and my third husband were lately divorced, I secretly married Rafet Pasha, onetime leader of the opposition party in Turkey, who, one of the few plotters against Mustafa Kemal Pasha to escape hanging, wisely resigned his seat in the Turkish National Assembly after his acquittal from complicity in that unfortunate affair. With him I started at once from Constantinople for Egypt, where Fuad, my onetime husband, rules autonomously, with British guidance. I was recently fined ten Turkish pounds, for insulting the U. S.-born Princess Saida Chakir, divorced wife of John D. Spreckels of San Francisco."