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...Bald, pious Charles Wayland Bryan, brother of the late great William Jennings Bryan, got his political start in 1915 as Mayor of flat, pious Lincoln, Neb. He went on to become Nebraska's three-time Governor and the Democratic Party's skull-capped candidate for Vice President in 1924. When his third term as Governor ended last January, Brother Bryan announced that he was retiring to tend his three farms. Last week, at 68, by polling more votes than any other candi date in a nonpartisan primary, he won a nomination for Mayor of Lincoln...
Charles Rudolph Walgreen runs the largest chain of drug stores in the U. S. and prizes the few hours a day he can spare with his family. Each morning in the ivory-colored dining room of his Chicago apartment, overlooking Lake Michigan and the South Shore Country Club, short, bald Drugman Walgreen and his wife take breakfast together. Before Daughter Ruth and Son Charles Jr. were married, they, too, turned up for breakfast. The Walgreens are given to talking much over their eggs. But since Mrs. Walgreen's niece Lucille Norton graduated from a Seattle high school and went...
Most metropolitan newspapers keep heir private squabbles politely hidden from public gaze, but Washington, D. C. presents two notable exceptions. One is the Washington Post, published by bald, scholarly Eugene Meyer, onetime Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank. The other is Hearst's Washington Herald, run by saucy, red-haired Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson...
Ever since the day in 1930 when his American Gothic won $300 and a bronze medal from the Chicago Art Institute, the name of Grant Wood has echoed persistently throughout the land. In five years, Artist Wood's picture of the bleak, bald Iowa farmer with the pitchfork and his daughter with the cameo and the printed apron has become almost as well known to the U. S. Public as Washington Crossing the Delaware. Yet not until last week did Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries succeed in borrowing American Gothic from the Art Institute of Chicago, Dinner for Threshers...
Only one German close to the Realmleader has a really loose tongue. Last week it was wagging wildly in Nurnberg where bald, barrel-chested Julius Streicher styles himself "Leader of the Franks" and pays scant respect to Prussia or Berlin. On his soth birthday lately he received the accolade of a personal visit from Adolf Hitler who declared: "There is one man on whose wholehearted support I can depend in every situation and who has never wavered one second, Julius Streicher...