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Marine Fireworks. Candidate Douglas has none too happy a reputation with party workers. As a rebellious and reform bent city alderman, he had thrown many a prewar monkey wrench into the Kelly-Nash machine. He had been badly beaten in the 1942 senatorial primary. Then (while his wife, Emily Taft Douglas, guarded the family political fortunes by serving a term in Congress), he had gone off to fight as a private in the Marines. Twice wounded, he came home a hero and a lieutenant colonel...
This character of the sons of Virginia, which Professor Coolidge cited at the installation of Edwin A. Alderman, has been molded by battle and distilled by bottle. At the outbreak of what is referred to as "the late unpleasantness between the states," 9,000 students had matriculated at the colonnades of the Jefferson rotunda. Of these 2,481, almost 30 percent, fell at Chancellorsville and the Wilderness, at Shiloh and Gettysburg, and many are buried within the famed serpentine brick walls of the 500-acre campus...
Considering retirement in 1937, Ruth divorced her husband, a onetime Chicago gunman named "Moe" Snyder, known more popularly to tabloid readers as "The Gimp." The next year, The Gimp crashed her Hollywood home and shot up Ruth's pianist, Myrl Alderman. The Gimp went to jail for a year. Ruth eloped with Alderman and retired to a Colorado ranch...
...program, a 15-minute concoction of dialogue and old songs, will be aired over Manhattan's powerful WHN five nights a week, beginning May 19, and will not interfere with guest spots on other stations, new recordings, and other comeback plans. Husband Alderman will be on hand, too. But, says Ruth, "it won't be the usual husband-&-wife show, with a lot of silly chatter over the breakfast table...
Last September WPTB began getting anonymous tips that even pulp was not the final solution. Smudged coupons began to show up. WPTB called in the Mounties. By last week indictments had been voted against 48 people, ranging from Hull grocer-alderman J. Arthur Lavigne to Eddy employees. So far 16 have been convicted (fines: $50' to $800) and Canada's tightest black market ring has been smashed...