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...convention. So was Brother A. D. ("Denny") Lewis. Surrounded by delegates of his construction-workers union, he sat glowering on his hunkers through the convention, ostentatiously keeping his seat whenever the rest of the delegates rose to applaud. When Brother Denny went abroad he was accompanied by a beefy bodyguard...
...American Mothers had greeted Lord Halifax when he arrived in Detroit. This time there was also a loud maternal booing. A barrage of eggs and vegetables rose from the crowd. An egg smacked the tall, dignified Ambassador. A tomato landed at his feet. An uncooked omelette splattered his bodyguard. Detectives tried to hurry the Ambassador into the building. Said he: "Don't hurry, boys. Let them have a good time for their money...
...fight. ∙ ∙ To Barbara Hutton, in Los Angeles, wired Cinemactor Cary Grant, in Mexico City: "The weather is fine and the scenery wonderful." Promptly the Woolworth heiress flew to the border, set off Mexico Citywards in an air-conditioned limousine with a friend, a chauffeur, a maid, a bodyguard. Her agent announced: "It is not an elopement." ∙ ∙ Gilt-haired Evangelist A'imee Semple McPherson, thrice-married, twice-divorced, approved a new bylaw adopted by her International Church of the Four Square Gospel. It prohibits a divorced minister from remarrying. ∙ ∙ Oldtime Cinemactress Constance Binney...
...Buenos Aires, with Acting President Ramón Castillo and his Joseph-coated bodyguard on hand, a fashionable crowd first saw the exhibition in the floodlit National Museum of Fine Arts on July Fourth eve. The Argentines were impressed. Led by U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Somerville Pinkney ("Kippy") Tuck, porteños traipsed from room to room, occasionally spotting a familiar picture ("Look, a Benton!"), noticing that U.S. art owed as much as theirs to French influence. The Argentines too liked Eugene Speicher's polished portraits. Art and amity were equally served by Bellows' painting...
...year-old monarch succeeded in leaving Crete on Friday after a four-day flight during which a New Zealand bodyguard sometimes battled the Germans only 800 yards behind to cover the escape of the King and his party...