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Published in Chicago was the 1940-41 Who's Who in America, biennial roster of notables. Total Who's: 31.752. Biggest Who (since the deaths of Surgeon Charles Horace Mayo and Lawyer Samuel Unter-myer): Nicholas Murray Butler, 119 lines, Newcomers: Shirley Temple ("decorations awarded from eight States"), Deanna Durbin ("singer, actress"), Frank Buck ("interested in wild animals"). Definitely Republican: Wendell Willkie, formerly a Democrat. First time in 14 years: Pronouncing dictionary of difficult names. Revived: Anne Morgan, sister of J. P. Morgan and president of the American Friends of France, inexplicably listed in the 1938-39 volume...
...Samuel Reshevsky, for the third consecutive time: the biennial tournament for the American Chess championship; in Manhattan; after an aside to a friend, acknowledging his opponent Reuben Fine's opportunity to win in the next few moves. Fine let the chance slip, the game was drawn, all Reshevsky needed, with his half-point lead, to keep the championship...
Congressional antics in election years are traditionally clownish. Many a sense-making, God-fearing Congressman goes more than somewhat screwy in a desperate effort to avert the biennial wrath of his constituency. But last week's two-ring Congressional circus was tops...
Last fortnight 3,000 Reorganized Mormon delegates met for biennial conference at Independence, fumed over Vardis Fisher's book. Said goateed President Frederick Smith: "This book is of the same type that besmirched Washington and Lincoln." Everyone laughed when another grandson, Lawyer Israel A. Smith, reported that in the genealogical records of the rival Mormon branch he had found his grandfather listed with the women who had been "sealed to him in celestial marriage" in Salt Lake City. "Joseph Smith," said he, "met his death before Salt Lake City was founded. But it was a real thrill to pull...
Local artists tend to dominate such famed annual shows as those of Chicago's Art Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy, Manhattan's Whitney Museum. But no Virginians are invited to the Richmond Biennial. Before they can be hung, they must be declared worth hanging by an out-of-State artists' jury. Two years ago, only five Virginians got hung. Last week, in the second Biennial, the local boys did better. Sixteen out of 181 had survived the critical stares of Jurors Guy Pene du Bois, Frederic Taubes, Paul Sample, Antonio Martino, Judson Smith. With 90 other survivors...