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...Governor (TIME, March 7). Talk, however, still comes out of Oklahoma concerning the Governor's matronly secretary with whom he is said to plumb spiritualism, occultism, Rosicrusianism. The latest report is that she calls the Democratic State Chairman her errand boy. Meanwhile her husband, Dr. Hammonds, churchgoer from Okmulgee, enjoys pay as State Commissioner of Health...
...were to choose the two most sensational bits of prose published in 1926, one might well select the short story "Hatrack" (reviewed in TIME, April 19), and the novel Revelry (TIME, Nov. 29). "Hatrack," the tale of "Fanny Fewclothes," rebuffed churchgoer and sought-after prostitute of Farmington,* Mo., enabled Editor H. L. Mencken to guffaw at the New England Watch and Ward Society, to boost the circulation of the American Mercury, to have the "Hatrack" issue barred from the U. S. mails. Revelry, a flashy novel of the scandals of the Harding Administration, is bringing fortune if not fame...
...late President Ebert was brought up in the Roman Catholic religion, but, arriving at man's estate, he became, to say the least, an indifferent churchgoer...
...named McGregor, Lee, O'Brien and Schurz. Public Record, after business and farming success, terms as Governor, United States Senator, Cabinet officer, Ambassador and the author of textbooks on world economics. Habits, excellent; a moderate drinker before 1917, but dry as a bone ever since; a fairly regular churchgoer. Family, the same wife he has had all along, and sturdy children. Personal relationships, liked by every one; known affectionately as 'old man' to Lodge, La Follette, McAdoo, Smith, Coolidge and Dawes, and as 'Senator' to an admiring populace. Residence, an office in New York City...