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...oldest Representative there was a thin, bald, snap-eyed man from Glenwood Springs, Colo.-Ed. T. Taylor, 81, who has run for office at 21 general elections, not only without defeat but without any opposition, and who is the author of more State laws, Constitutional amendments and Federal laws combined than anyone else...
...were directly responsible for Editor Walker's sudden resignation. One was Colonel Guy T. Visniskki, a suave, stout, egg-bald figure familiar to the office of many a sick newspaper, who turned up in the Ledger office last November to make an efficiency survey. The other was Stanley Walker himself...
...amusing respite from Widener. Joan Blondell and Melvyn Douglas both turn out humorous performances in Columbia's imitation of the "Thin Man" series. Super-sleuth Douglas in the course of the picture apprehends a bank robber, decoys a skull-crusher, and takes a "desperate criminal,"--middle-aged and bald--on a double date to the beach with Miss Blondell. One of the more slap-stick incidents occurs when the amazing Mr. Williams attempts to disguise himself by donning women's clothes; it is a backneyed device, but good for several belly-laugbs...
Grant Wood is an earthy, peaceable Iowan who manages to stir up many an artistic rumpus. His American Gothic (1930), portrait of a bleak, bald Iowa farmer and his tight-lipped daughter, at once became chief icon of the past decade's resurgent move to "paint American." His Daughters of Revolution (1932), three prim, grim, self-important matrons, scandalized the D. A. R. Lately Artist Wood has spent more time teaching and making lithographs than he has at his easel...
...last fortnight, Air Marshal Hermann Göring last week caused Lieut. Colonel Karl Schumacher, in command of the wing assigned to protect Germany's northwest sea approaches, to appear in the theatre hall of the Propaganda Ministry at Berlin. To assembled correspondents, Colonel Schumacher-43, heavy and bald-declared that he was surprised the British would attempt raiding on a clear day. He saluted British gallantry and skill, but explained that his men's only problem had been to break up the bomber formations by diving on them, then shooting rear machine-gunners before proceeding...