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Friends at Whistle. For years Johnson kept Garrick out of his famous literary club because "He'll disturb us by his buf-foonery." Wrote Oliver Goldsmith, whom Garrick had rebuffed when he wrote his first play...
Then the message came; Harry Truman summoned him-buf not a moment too soon. In the excitement someone at the White House typed the announcement that the President would confer that afternoon with "Mr." Charles O'Neill (head of the northern mine operators) and the "Hon." John Lewis. Triumphantly, the Hon. John Lewis acted. As he had once ruined Franklin Roosevelt's show by proclaiming the end of a strike 15 minutes before Roosevelt went on the air to castigate him, he now spoiled Harry Truman's show. Three hours before he was due at the White...
...Oswald Mosley for his flagrant, daily violation of Parliament's recently enacted law barring in Britain the wearing of "political uniforms" such as a black shirt (TIME, Nov. 23). "I have worn this black shirt myself for six weeks!" cried Sir Oswald at a meeting of his BUF (British Union of Fascists). "Nothing has been done to me and we Fascists are beginning to assume that this black shirt I am wearing is not in the Government's view illegal. I challenge them to order my arrest...
...Prep. School Bjorkman '25, left end 22 165 5.11 Newton High Oberlander '26, left tackle 19 193 6.00 Everett High Diehl '26, left guard 19 200 6.00 Parker School, Chicago Duffy '26, center 19 190 6.00 1/2 Central High, Wash. Ellis '24, center 21 181 5.11 1/2 Hutchinson High, Buf. Aschenback '24, right guard 22 200 6.00 East Orange High Hatch '24, right tackle 22 195 6.02 Dean Watkins '24, right end 21 171 6.01 1/2 Shaw High, Cleveland Hagenbuckle '24, right end 21 170 5.09 Mount Vernon High Dooley '26, quarterback 19 170 5.08 1/2 St. Johns, Brooklyn Calder...