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...month and demanded Scott's head. Now that they had it, they were not sure just whom they wanted in his place.* Among the likeliest candidates: New Jersey's National Committeeman Guy Gabrielson, Michigan's National Committeeman Arthur Summerfield, Nebraska's State Chairman A. T. ("Bert") Howard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disorder in the Ranks | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Spoils System. In Denver, Kenneth Sigrist admitted that he had broken into District Attorney Bert Keating's automobile with intent to steal, but protested, "What's he hollering about? I voted for him, didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 18, 1949 | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Buyers on the Sideline. "Bert Howe, the barber, has a single house that he has cut up into four apartments, and rents three of them. He owns the place, worth about $12,000, and would like to buy some other property. 'I think there's a hell of a depression coming,' he said, tamping tobacco into his pipe. 'Right now I wouldn't buy a chickenhouse. I'm put and I'm staying put. I lived through the other depression and saw what happened.' Mrs. Howe said she would like to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watching the Ball Game | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...will give the old comedy a rest in favor of Present Laughter. Some of the other country hands: Helen Hayes (in a tryout of William McCleery's Good Housekeeping), Paul Lukas, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Eva Le Gallienne, Basil Rathbone, Mady Christians, Ann Harding, Elisabeth Bergner, Joan Blondell, Bert Lahr, Kay Francis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Citronella Circuit | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...Wizard of Oz. A happily inspired reissue of the ten-year-old classic, with Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jun. 6, 1949 | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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