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THE MAN
In September of 1921 Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis, was climbing the best-seller lists. Gene Sarazen was the golf leader. Roger Horasby was on his way to hitting 42 homers, a new National League record. Bill Tilden was walloping all tennis opposition. Willie Hoppe was the billiard champion, and it looked as if Princeton had the best football team.
Newspapers predicted brain tests for drivers, to cut down the alarming increase in accidents. The tombs of Tutankhamen were unearthed. Prohibition was in and many of the college set carried flasks. Business was just starting to climb out of a depression.
Scientists were surprised to find that the Chinese had the lowest blood pressure of all nations and were determined to find out why. The Jewett car sold for $995 and the Essex for $1145. Magnavox, promoting its radios, showed an elderly couple listening to the radio under the caption, "Pals again."
On Broadway John B anymore starred in Hamlet. The movies had such hits as Will Rogers in A Ropiri Fool ( In two parts!), Rudolph Valentino in The Young Rajah, Harold Lloyd in Grandma's Boy, Mae Murray in Broadway Rose and Marion Davies in When Knightlwod Was in Flower.
Also among the hits was Crazy to Marry, starring Fatty Arbuckle, a sure-shot comedian who was paid $5000 a week, 40 weeks a year by Joseph Schenck Productions to amuse the movie audiences. With a bland, smiling, plump face and a talent for idiocy on celluloid, Arbuckle was at the top of his profession and still climbing.
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