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...that set them buzzing was neither an editor nor a priest, but a diminutive oldster (66) named Theodore Francis MacManus, big automobile adman (retired), longtime friend of Walter P. Chrysler, great & good friend of the late Pope Pius XI, who honored him with two knighthoods...
Married. Benvenuta Rose Crooke Kelley (Benay Venuta), 27, Broadwayfaring songstress and comedienne (Anything Goes, Kiss the Boys Good-Bye); and Armand S. Deutsch Jr., 27, Manhattan adman; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
...philanthropy is unpredictable. Last fortnight President Hutchins was obliged to announce one of the richest hauls in University of Chicago's history-a total of $8,000,000 in December. Major item: the $3,500,000 Lake Forest estate (including a top-rank, 18-hole golf course) of Adman Albert Davis Lasker...
...Third-Termites of the Week: Illinois's bald, paunchy Governor Henry Horner. Chicago's bluff, blunt Mayor Edward Kelly. Add anti-Third Termites: New York City's Republican Bruce Barton, adman, God-man and Congressman from the Park Avenue district: "I feel sure that Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt will be permitted to have a happy, peaceful time at Hyde Park in the future...
Conspicuously absent from the ball was fun-loving, publicity-shy Novelist Margaret Mitchell, who stayed home with her husband, Adman John R. Marsh. Said friends: "Her dad's ailin...