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...word about the past. He had even burned all his records (TIME, July 14). But in the long run he could not resist the temptation to join the long line of Franklin Roosevelt's old intimates in the writing of memoirs.* With Garner's blessing, Washington Correspondent Bascom N. Timmons, a crony of his Washington days, drew on his own notes and memory, started the ex-Vice President's story last week in Collier's. Some milk and thorns from Cactus Jack...
...sadder piece of news than the election (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). It caught Sports Editor Warren Brown as he arrived in Manhattan to cover the Army-Notre Dame game: he was fired, but could stay on as a columnist if he wanted-at lower pay. Lanky, stuttering Bascom Timmons, the Washington bureau chief, picked up a phone and heard it from Marshall Field himself: Timmons and all but four of the ten-man capital crew were through. Overseas correspondents got the word in depressing cables; city-room men got it by rumor, then by dismissal notices...
...Bascom Timmons could afford to lose his $18,000 job-since he makes around $80,000 a year from 21 other papers-but he had been a charter member of the Sun's staff and had set up its capital bureau...
Died. Henry Bascom Steagall, 70. Democratic Representative from Alabama since 1915, chairman of the House's Banking & Currency Committee, longtime leader of the House's powerful farm bloc; of a heart attack, three days after speaking for his inflationary Commodity Credit Corporation bill (see p. 22); in Washington...
Died. Campbell Bascom Slemp, 72, one-time White House secretary to Calvin Coolidge, longtime GOPolitico; of heart disease; in Knoxville, Tenn. Straight-faced, high-collared Bascom Slemp promised Coolidge he would write no intimate memoirs...