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...from obscurity when he stage-managed the Roosevelt pre-election junket to Georgia. With the rise of Eugene Talmadge, Hugh Howell was made chairman of the Democratic State Executive Committee. Brother Hugh did not forget his older brother Alexander, a country schoolteacher, who soon became State School Supervisor. Last autumn "Alex" was also put in charge of WPA Project No. 1744, in which a number of idle girls were employed gathering public school records for the past 15 years. Last month when the anti-Roosevelt Congress of "Goober Democrats" gathered at Macon (TIME, Feb. 10), on each & every seat...
...hilo, vreille (popular only among Kansas co eds). In 1907 Dr. Naismith was replaced as Kansas basketball coach. Since then, his principal contact with the game has been sitting in the front row to watch Kan sas teams, which have won four Big Six Conference championships. Last autumn Dr. Forrest C. Allen, University of Kansas' basketball coach, who makes $4,000 to Dr. Naismith's $3,000, promoted the idea of sending grey-haired old Dr. Naismith to Berlin to see the Olympic games next sum mer. Last week colleges which approved the idea added...
...Last autumn the Freshman class roused itself to present a great petition, begging permission to eat meals in the Houses without extra charge. Yesterday being the day for decisions, the College administration acted on the advice of the Student Council and announced that a brand new experiment will begin on April 10th. Freshmen may eat one meal a week in the Houses, exchanging Union fare for House fare on the counter signature of a House member. On the basis of this test flight, the final, permanent model will...
...work. At the turn of the century John Jacob Astor commissioned Artist Parrish to paint a picture of Old King Cole for his Hotel Knickerbocker. The panel, 28 feet long, showing the pipe, the bowl, the fiddlers three, was the wonder of Times Square for nearly 20 years. Last autumn it reappeared in the St. Regis King Cole Room. In addition Maxfield Parrish has decorated the Ladies' Home Journal Building in Philadelphia, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's studio on Long Island and the music room at Irenee du Font's huge estate near Wilmington...
...Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week. His entourage included Air Minister Göring, Minister of Propaganda Goebbels, War Minister von Blomberg, Julius Streicher, Interior Minister Frick, Storm Troop Leader Lutze and almost every other important Nazi in Germany. Nonetheless, Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall of the New York Times, which last autumn gave the loudest bursts of publicity to Jeremiah T. Mahoney's efforts to have the U. S. withdraw from the 1936 Olympic Games (TIME, Nov. 4), felt justified in writing: ". . . Not the slightest evidence of religious, political or racial prejudice is outwardly visible here. Anti-Jewish signs have been...