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...appeared in the last two years, it was the first important one to suspend publication. Picture, brought out in December (TIME, Dec. 27), was rather effectively elbowed out of the way early in January by lowbrowed Click. Now Picture Publisher J. Stirling Getchell, one of the first to be bitten by the picture magazine bug, can again concentrate full efforts on his big advertising agency...
Most ominous Cabinet member is iron-fisted General Martinez Anido, Minister of Public Order, who for the past ten months has headed Franco's secret police, his hard bitten Guardia Civil, his frontier and highway guards. He was for seven years Minister of the Interior under Spain's late Dictator, Primo de Rivera (TIME, Dec. 2, 1929), suppressed Communists and Anarchists in Barcelona with such vigor that they retaliated by nicknaming him. "The Epileptic Pig." His nature has not softened...
When Philadelphia's hard-bitten Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson was prevented from spending $70,000,000 for a nitration plant, he angrily called the city's drinking water "filtered filth!" But when Dr. Haven Emerson, lanky, zealous Manhattan authority on public health, swooped into Philadelphia last week and whooped: "The water supply here is worse than that of any other large city in the country," then Mayor Wilson, just out of sickbed, roared: "Sniping...
...sand-bitten old Clark Alvord prospected in the sere Nevada hills, trudged the desert studying Indian lore, managed the post office and a general store in the desert town of Nelson (pop. 17). By night he liked to write friendly compliments to his favorite film star, Marion Davies, whose pictures he frequently drove the 40 rough miles to Las Vegas to see. Fortnight ago Prospector Alvord died, and last week his will was read. To his kin went 45% of his estate, to Actress Davies the rest. The estate: $1,000 cash, money due him on a $9,000 mining...
...running them a close third. This year's audiences will hear little sex but much politics, fewer accounts of adventures in Africa but many discussions on how to make friends, how to influence people, how to conquer worry, feelings of inferiority and fear. Most astonishing news to hard-bitten lecture agents was the spectacular success of Dorothy Thompson, whose intense, nervous speeches recapitulate the ideas she dins into her daily column in the New York Herald Tribune. Giving only eight lectures at an undisclosed figure, Dorothy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) last week had turned down 700 invitations to speak...