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...wonder what would have happened to great Hugo if he had not been so much of a teetotaler or if he had ever, as I once challenged him to do, joined me at the Stork Club with Broun, Benchley and Thurber...
...people to be interested in moon rockets and such stuff-there at Alabama's Huntsville space center was former first magnitude Film Star Gloria Swanson, 6.4, hearing all about other worlds from a man she had long admired, Rocket Scientist Dr. Wernher von Broun, 51. "I felt self-conscious taking his time," said Gloria. "If you're a woman, people think you have feathers in your head, especially if you're from Hollywood. But I poked around asking what's this, how does that work, what's that little green thing? It was fascinating...
Ring Lardner, Grantland Rice, Heywood Broun, Henry Cabot Lodge (then a Trib editorial writer), Wolcott Gibbs and Gene Fowler regularly turned up at the peephole, giving rise to its nickname: "the latter-day Mermaid Tavern...
...Heywood Broun was not the least vitriolic commentator on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, neither was he the most impassioned. The conviction of the poor fish-peddler and the good shoemaker in 1921 shocked the liberals of the '20's to such an extent that it became their cause; hundreds of thousands of them picketed, wrote letters, gave money, and pleaded desperately for acquittal...
With such as these in tow, Preminger could get practically anything he wanted. A mansion in which to film a big dinner party? Mrs. E. Fontaine Broun lent him her palatial estate, Tregaron, which once belonged to her father, the late Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. Assorted objets d'art, classy furniture and rugs? Top-name families and museums donated décor to the tune of $250,000 worth. Extras for the ball? The cream of Washington society, as well as some of the milk, volunteered. A five-room suite in the Mayflower? Democratic National Chairman John Bailey offered...