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...Chicago Tribune until one day in 1930. Then another Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, was shot in Chicago. Publisher McCormick of the Tribune put Boettiger on the case. He stuck to it, wrote the Tribune's stories on it, right up to the capture and conviction of Leo V. ("Buster") Brothers (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931). In 1932 when Franklin D. Roosevelt flew to Chicago to accept the Democratic nomination, Col. McCormick assigned John Boettiger to cover the Democratic Nominee. From that time he followed the Roosevelts, to Albany, to Hyde Park, to the Pacific Coast, to Warm Springs, to Washington...
...tell a good joke, and just what distinguishes a belly-buster from a total flop is the subject of a recent thesis compiled by Dr. Richard N. Sears '27 under the auspices of the Psychology Department...
...times." When he laughed at a gag, audiences were sure to howl over it. The roster of his employes reads like a Hollywood Hall of Fame: Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Gloria Swanson, "Fatty" Arbuckle, W. C. Fields, Ben Turpin, Harold Lloyd, Weber & Fields, Lew Cody, Louise Fazenda, Bebe Daniels, Buster Keaton, Hal Roach, many another. It was Mack Sennett who imported Charlie Chaplin, overcame his disastrous first appearance by changing his make-up and costume. With a boilermaker's education, habits and vocabulary. Sennett distrusted such academic impedimenta as written scripts, insisted on his authors telling him their stories...
Then twelve Cambridge reserves arrived and stood about keeping the peace until one of the Apted Lieutenants was heard to remark, "Say, we better call up the Boss, this is getting high." But he was anticipated by some young gentleman who already had tipped Harvard's riot buster off, and in a few minutes the Colonel himself drove up in his Buick with a squeaking of brakes and hopped out into Mill Street leaving his motor running and crying, "All right you, Break it up, and go Home." This produced magnificent effects and by pushing all the men who lived...
...owns 160 acres dotted with oil wells worth $650,000. They live in a $45,000 brick house near Sapulpa, Okla. on a neatly landscaped estate equipped with a garage for their three expensive automobiles. At Bacone Indian College & School in Muskogee, Okla. last year Juanita met and loved Buster McClish, 18, a Choctaw farmer boy from southern Oklahoma. With a baby on the way they decided they had better get married. Mother Woosey, who was a grandmother at 29, was sympathetic. Choctaw Indians are not oil-rich and Buster's parents readily gave consent. There was only...