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When Driver Arthur James overturned on a Wisconsin highway, next car to happen along was that of an urbane, immaculately dressed man who helped right the overturned car, extricate Mrs. James. Then Dr. Glenn Frank, onetime president of the University of Wisconsin, longtime Republican bigwig, drove on to the town where he was to speak in his campaign for the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator...
...network. Moderately successful in previous radio appearances (1935-36,1939-40), Pearson & Allen have this time gone to town. Although neither the amicable Pearson nor the pugnacious Allen has much of a voice, they have made their new show as lively as their news copy, have persuaded many a bigwig to appear with them on the air. Among their famous foils to date: William S. Knudsen, Mrs. Roosevelt, Robert Jackson, Lord Lothian, and last week famed French Commentator Pertinax (Andre Géraud), who described the reasons behind the collapse of France in his first public pronouncement since he arrived...
Died. Max David Steuer, 69, slick, hawk-faced criminal lawyer who rescued many a careless bigwig and stumbling mobster from legal quicksands; of a heart attack; in Jackson, N. H. Born in Austria, Jewish Max Steuer emigrated to Manhattan as a boy, worked day & night to pay for his legal education. At the height of his career, candid, inconspicuous Steuer was reputed to have made $1,000,000 a year. Among his clients: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Gangster John Torrio, ex-Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Fight Promoter Tex Rickard, onetime Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, Charles E. Mitchell, onetime...
Sharing Driver Egan's joy was Owner Charles W. Phellis, retired Du Pont bigwig, who has raised trotters for 40 years, has had four previous starters in the Hambletonian (entry fee for each starter is around $1,000). Spencer Scott brought him his first victory...
...four and a half year old Commission, created by the National Education Association to chart national policies, is a kind of spiritual adviser to the schools. It includes such bigwig pedagogues as Philadelphia's Superintendent Alexander J. Stoddard, Cornell's President Edmund E. Day, U. S. Commissioner John W. Studebaker. To big-city school superintendents and crossroads schoolhouses, the Commission last week sent a fervent orange-covered booklet-Education and the Defense of American Democracy...