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Southern Baptist Convention. Full of talk about Socialism and Communism, Messenger Norris was loudest in announcing that he was going to spike plans to have a Fellowship Meeting addressed by Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, No. 1 Japanese Christian (TIME, Dec. 30 et seq.) whom Dr. Norris attempted to bait in Rochester, N. Y. last month. The Southern Baptists easily squelched the Texan. As a demonstration of Baptist solidarity - though neither convention discussed merging during their sessions - the Fellowship Meeting was presided over alternately by President James Henry Franklin of the Northern Baptists and President John Richard Sampey of the Southern...
...Conant refrained from commenting yesterday on the latest bait handed out by Ernst F. S. Hanfstaengl '09, plenipotentiary of Hitler publicity, and the Atlantic waters are again calm after the oversea delivery of Tuesday's pungent missive...
...Music Goes 'Round (Columbia) had been completed under its original title, Rolling Along, when the insane little song called The Music Goes 'Round and Around, popularized by two Manhattan night club entertainers, became an overnight sensation (TIME, Jan. 20). Quick to take the bait, Columbia rechristened the picture, signed contracts with the entertainers Eddy Farley and Mike Riley, who were then generally supposed to be the song's composers,* flew them and four members of their troupe to Hollywood, built the picture to a climax in which they sing their song. The result was hustled into...
...dazzling flash the whole panorama shifts, and these characters assume their new roles in the gang. Immediately preparations build up for the denouement, an outcome that can be predicted in general import, but that leaves an exhilarating suspense as to details. A final charming touch occurs when the pretty bait, bared in her shame and led off by the police, swears that she never liked any guy as much as Calvin Miller...
...direct, incisive, fact-hunting and fact-recording journalist, whether in prose, poetry, verse or doggerel. He was estimated to have died with the greatest fortune ever made by an author, something like $3,750,000. In his last in terview in 1935 he said with utter candor: "You must bait your hook with gaudy words. I used to search for words in the British Museum. I read mad poets...