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...many a sentimental tear rolled down stubbled jowls into nickel beer last week in Chicago. The Hon. Michael "Hinky Dink" Kenna announced he did not choose to run again for First Ward Alderman. Chicago historians hailed the passing of a lusty, gusty 50-year era; a time that began when Hinky Dink's great pal John J. ("Bathhouse John") Coughlin was Alderman. They called him Hinky Dink, or The Hink, because he was so short...
Beautiful Corruption. On election days they voted as Hinky Dink wanted. In time he became a political power; inevitably he met and made a friend of Bathhouse John, then a rubber at the old Palmer House baths. The Bath was elected Alderman in 1892; five years later Hinky Dink followed him into the council as second Alderman. But a 1923 reorganization allowed only one Alderman per ward...
Paul Douglas, 49, an absent-minded economics professor at the University of Chicago, now a Chicago alderman who acts as gadfly to the machine, a New Dealer who has little downstate appeal...
David O. Selznick paid $1,200,000 for a United Artists partnership with Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Alexander Korda, promised to make $20,000,000 worth of pictures, got a kiss from Mary. Ruth Etting's husband, Myrl Alderman, dropped his $225,000 damage suit against her ex-husband, Martin Snyder, who shot him four years ago. Billy Rose sued the Canadian National Exhibition for $500,000 for calling its summer water show an "Aquacade." Richard Krebs ("Jan Valtin") was sued for $50,000 by a woman who said she spent more than a year typing and researching...
...Author Kraus, "likes Mr. Morrison's sharp wit and his tight-lipped but so much the more fanatic devotion to England." Morrison likes the King, regrets that he already holds so exalted a job. Morrison, who also runs the London County Council, once enviously sighed: "What an excellent Alderman of London the King would make...