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Among the stars of the new rhythm band team are Buster Bailey, America's ace clarinetist, and John Kirby, Century of Progress prizewinner for his sensational bass playing...
Unable to obtain an honest-to-God "lariat" in St Louis, Buster Estes, of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Post No. 43, used an ordinary sash cord seldom missed. Madame Schumann-Hemk held her hands up as he approached laughingly said, "No, no, no, no." He obligingly refrained. Many a youngster ran along at his side cried, "Rope me, mister." Most of them were gleefully satisfied...
...with influenza and nervous breakdown, irrational, almost penniless, sued for back alimony by Natalie Talmadge Keaton, recently divorced by Mae Elizabeth Scribbens Keaton, long-faced Funnyman Joseph Francis ("Buster") Keaton was bundled off in a straitjacket to the psychopathic ward of a Sawtelle, Calif., hospital...
Several days ago Senator Borah expertly launched a political balloon. In a letter to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt he raised from the dead the old issue of monopoly. In effect he demanded that the son of the old "trust-buster" rally to the old cause and, not altogether without design, managed to get his own name plastered over the nation's front pages...
Bronson Cutting, however, was not a dilettante in New Mexico but a buster of the best-laid plans of politicians. In that machine-ridden State he won a following of Spanish-American voters, of War veterans, of political liberals, all of whose languages he spoke, whose interests he championed. Although a nominal Republican he fought and broke Albert Fall's Republican machine. In 1924 he helped elect a Democratic Senator, Sam Bratton, and in 1926 a Republican Governor, Richard C. Dillon. Following year Governor Dillon named him to a vacancy in the U. S. Senate. As a Republican Senator...