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...next three years include the British Empire Exhibition in Glasgow, Scotland (1938); the Tokyo International Exposition to mark the 2,600th anniversary of the founding of the Japanese Empire (1940); the San Francisco Bay Exposition to celebrate the new bridge from San Francisco to Oakland opened last autumn (February 1939). Ruled out by the International Bureau of Expositions as a fair-of-the-year, the San Francisco Bay Exposition will be a local fair...
Most popular mourner naturally was Governor Gordon Browning, who will appoint Senator Bachman's successor. Governor Browning, elected last autumn with the support of Boss Edward Hull Crump of Memphis (TIME, Aug. 17), had had his own eye on Senator Bachman's seat, which was occupied by Cordell Hull until he moved into the Cabinet. Gordon Browning, in fact, lost the seat to Nathan Bachman in the primaries of 1934. Knowing that the public does not like a Governor who resigns in order to be appointed to the Senate, he firmly announced last week that he would...
...public museum. For many years Banker Bache kept his great collection in a large Manhattan apartment, bought his present house in 1925 with the idea of turning it into a museum. For his own use Mr. Bache kept only a small suite on the third floor. By this autumn all remaining changes should be completed...
...entertainment business entered upon a period of license equaled only in Europe. The films got broad and bare. Fan dancers, "nudist colonists" and other female exhibitionists were responsible for the gay success of world's fairs at Chicago, San Diego and Dallas. The fair girls vanished with the autumn and the Legion of Decency rectified the films. But burlesque in New York City suffered no brake except Commissioner Moss's warning and an occasional police raid when a show got too hot for even the precinct police captain to tolerate. The old scatological burlesque jokes bandied...
...Hose will probably manage entertainment at the monster NAPR annual conventions. "Oil Conventions are pretty rough as a rule but our boys are different." said Chief Pump Knight Shanks last week. "The boys have to relax sometimes." Plans for fun at the convention in Rochester, N. Y. next autumn will be shaped by the Grand Knights of the Hose's governing body, the Free Privy Council...