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...made headlines in Ohio last week was Wendell Willkie (see p. 26). But the man Ohio was talking about was Harold Hitz Burton, mayor of Cleveland, Republican candidate for the U. S. Senate...
...When Burton sought the nomination last spring, the G. O. P. machine was set to roll him flatter than a pancake. But Burton, like Willkie at Philadelphia, stopped the professionals in their tracks. After his nomination, astute Harold Burton made peace. It took some making. As mayor of Cleveland during the city's relief crisis, he had cracked out right & left, had collided with such Party holy men as State Boss Ed Schorr and Governor John W. Bricker. When he was fighting them for the Senatorial nomination he had proclaimed: "If I am elected I will take an oath...
Greying, square-cut, with darkly shadowed eyes, Harold Burton is as conservative as Robert Taft, though he frequently disagrees with him (Burton was for conscription 100%). Dispassionate, honest, he has few close friends, many admirers. His Yankee ancestors fought in the American Revolution. He himself fought in the Meuse-Argonne, won the Belgian Croix de Guerre and the U. S. Order of the Purple Heart...
...most interesting matches thus far have been Lindley Burton's upset victory over Russ Ellis, former first man on his Freshman team, and Bart Harvey's win over Don Daniels of last year's Yardling aggregation...
Hold On to Your Hats (music & lyrics by Burton Lane & E. Y. Harburg, produced by Al Jolson & George Hale). Al Jolson has an anxiety complex. He is afraid that audiences will not like him. Last week he was reassured. After a nine-year stay in Hollywood, where his light was dimmed by the glare of kliegs on more popular faces, he returned to Broadway in a burst of triumph, was prodigally welcomed by a first-night crowd undismayed by an $8.80 top. The vehicle that brought Jolson back to the boards was a rowdy, expansive, old-fashioned musicomedy, with...