QUIET MR. WALKER
Enthusiasm for the simple life evinced by erstwhilo Mayor, now syndicate- writer, James J. Walker, of Now York, gives rise to speculation whether the English countryside and climate have caused in him sudden changes of heart and habits. Or it may bo his marriage with Betty Compton, his long-timo friend, which has wrought the professed indifference to the fleshpo(s in Manhattan's former first nighter and playboy. He would like to settle down to quid; farming in England, he says. "The tempo of this country is slower than that of America raid suits me better. "What I would like mom than, anything else in the world .is a little i'finn here." This was on the occasion of a. weekend at Sandown, Isle of AVight, the birthplace oi' his new wife.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1933, Page 14
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132QUIET MR. WALKER Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1933, Page 14
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