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Born. To Arthur Brisbane, 71, Hearst editor & pundit, famed booster of marriages & babies; his first grandchild, son of John H. Reagan ("Tex") McCrary and Sarah Brisbane McCrary; in Manhattan. Name: Michael. Weight...
President of Pittsburgh Plate since 1928 has been Harry S. Wherrett, a onetime office boy. A great Pittsburgh booster and member of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, he is advertising his city and his company by putting the little known Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on the radio in a Pittsburgh Plate Glass half hour. The program, scheduled to begin on Feb. 27, will be broadcast over a 40-station NBC hookup. An added civic note is supplied by the fact that the orchestra leader, Antonio Modarelli, is a native Pittsburgher...
...acre chunk of his father's original estate equipped with an Italian villa, swimming pool, squash courts, garage with a Cadillac and two Oldsmobiles. Son Crocker also goes in for civic virtue, helped establish the San Francisco Museum of Art, for a while helped run Californians, Inc., booster organization. He was largely responsible for the First National merger, engineering the deal after a few brisk conferences while his father was in Europe...
...situation reached its boiling point when it became known that Mildred Gerber's sponsor was Alderman Arvey, chairman of the Council Finance Committee and chief booster of a $15,000 grant which the Opera hopes to get from the city, in return for a radio program supposed to glorify Chicago and its music. Such a gift was badly needed to meet Longone's payroll but the thought of it infuriated many a Chicago taxpayer. Most newspapers were wary with their comments, partly because Mayor Edward J. Kelly is one of Longone's backers and the Opera...
...tour full days of pranks, parades, politics. Time & Place. An activity which jumped the official gun was the scramble by four big U. S. cities for next year's convention site. At stake were civic prestige, acres of publicity and $10,000,000 in Legion spending money. Booster delegations outdid themselves in their efforts to ingratiate themselves with the conventioneers in general, the potent Committee on Time & Place in particular...