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Being an American citizen born of American parents and having lived here for the past eight years, I must protest and tell you that I was ashamed of your description of the Royal Visit to Canada...
...Born in Elizabethgrad in the Russian Ukraine, the son of a Jewish school teacher, Alex Gumberg migrated to the U. S. by himself at 15, became a licensed pharmacist. But he kept in touch with Bolshevik doings and returned to Russia after the Kerensky revolution. There he met, through William Boyce Thompson, Colonel Raymond Robin, head of the American Red Cross mission. In those troubled times Mr. Thompson could get no meat for his wolfhound. Gumberg got it., He became confidential agent for the Red Cross. Through the Red Cross he formed his enduring friendship with Judge Thacher...
...Born. To Cinemactress Maureen ("Tarzan's bride") O'Sullivan and Scenarist John Farrow: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Michael Damion Farrow...
...Born. To Robin ("Bazooka Bob") Burns, homely, hayseed film clown, and Harriet Foster Burns, his second wife; their second (his third) child, an 8½-lb. boy. Name: Robin Burns Jr. Christening gift: a baby bazooka...
Died. Murdo Mackenzie, 89, Scottish-born president of the American National Livestock Association; in Denver. Old-time Western rancher, Mackenzie became king of U. S. cattlemen, operated 1,000,000 acres in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, once scolded President Theodore Roosevelt: "You said you'd give me 20 minutes and you've done all the talking. Now you'll keep your word and listen to me." Cattleman Mackenzie never carried a gun. Said he: "I'm too big to do any gunfighting. Nobody could possibly miss me." His biggest triumph: the 1906 Hepburn Act, which...