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...devious trail led to the Manhattan publishing house of Howell, Soskin & Co., whom Zapp "procured" to publish the German White Paper under its imprint. Thence, the charges continued, the trail led to Ralph Beaver Strassburger, rich, 58-year-old publisher of the prosperous Norristown (Pa.) Times Herald, who last summer fought hard to get the Republican nomination for Ham Fish. According to the Federal indictment, Zapp "procured" Strassburger to finance and distribute free more than 60,000 copies of the White Paper, while concealing the fact that he had anything to do with the deal...
Preceding the annual spring vacation tour in the South, the University orchestra will make a three-day invasion of Pennsylvanian colleges this week-end, beginning with a return engagement tonight at Beaver College, which gave the musicians an enthusiastic reception last year...
...degree equalled only in Professor Merriman's Middle Ages. he gives us Pierre Radisson:wiry trapper with beady French eyes, teeth like Henry VIII and a goodly supply of Canadian-grown chin foliage. The plot is a confusing series of trips between the land of the beaver and the London lolly pops of the curt of Charles II-with enough of the former to make the show worthwhile. Hudson's Boy, John Sutton, finds Canada hard to handle, but Gene Tierney is a pushover for anybody. Several classic fisty scenes and some robust humor heavily handed out by Radisson...
After the great event all that remained was for the President to review the inaugural parade. Before the White House the wind was not so keen as on Capitol Hill. The crowd stamped less, cheered more, laughed more easily. It cheered the silk-hatted, beaver-collared President (who had borrowed Joe Davies' fur-lined overcoat). It watched with unexcited approval as General Marshall on his bay horse, King Story, went by with six aides and a cavalry troop, West Point cadets and Annapolis midshipmen. Brand new grey-green Fords rolled by interminably, carrying Governors and dignitaries. There were...
...small Davis band (without Meyer Davis) may be hired for as little as $125, but most people like them large. The Philadelphia Wideners once had 75 men, the A. Atwater Rents 90, and Ralph Beaver Strassburger in Manhattan the equivalent of a symphony orchestra: 103. Leader Davis is booked through...