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...Tall angular Congressman Patman, 37, a War machine gunner, early last winter began his agitation for Bonus-cashing. A missionary Baptist, he spread his gospel of full and immediate payments through the House when his friends assured him he was only crying in a wilderness. He gave the Republican House leadership a bad scare when he got almost 150 signatures to a petition to force the Bonus bill out of committee and into open debate. His converts gave the Battle for the Bonus its first real strength...
...loses by scratchy, amateurish retouching are regained by cleverly arranged profusions of artificial flora, drapery, gimcracks, for Photographer Beaton is admittedly inspired by the early fashion pictures of Lallie Charles in the Sketch and Tatler. Beauties immortalized by Photographer Beaton are apparently chosen for their news value, ranging from angular Margot Asquith, homely Poetess Edith Sitwell (posed as a corpse, clutching a bunch of lilies) and Novelist Virginia Woolf (who protested in the London Spectator at being Beatonified without permission) to such obvious subjects as Dancer Tilly Losch, Cinemactress Marion Davies, and Photographer Beaton's two pretty sisters, Baba...
...Taft, Congressman Luce, Claude Bowers, Abbott Lawrence Lowell et al. He quoted a feeble joke from the Georgia Supreme Court. His opinion was a display of wide reading and deep scholarship. Whether or not it was good law was another matter. The Judge. Behind the decision was a tall, angular, sandy-haired man of 39 who has the distinction of being the youngest member of the Federal judiciary. Scion of the rich O N T thread* family, he was born in Newark, learned law at Harvard, served in the A. E. F. He lives quietly in Princeton, has not taken...
...Transport's line between Atlanta and New York∙-one spike-driver, had there been a spike to drive, would have been brusque, bulky Capt. Thomas Bartwell Doe, U. S. A. retired, famed West Point footballer, E. A. T.'s president. And another would have been tall, angular, pipe-smoking Frederic Gallup Coburn, president of American Airways, Inc. whose Atlanta-Los Angeles and New York-Boston-Montreal lines the E. A. T. stretch now connects...
...Diana Fishwick, small, angular, 19-year-old British golfer: the British women's championship, beating Glenna Collett, who was putting badly, 4 up and 3 to go in the finals at Formby, England...