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Chewing a cigar, shaving, and saying "hot-cha-cha-cha" all at the same time may be hard for modest people, but not for Jimmy "Schnozzle" Durante for that was just what he was doing in his dressing room at the Colonial Theatre last night ten minutes before the curtain for "Red, Hot, and Blue" went up and the Crimson reporter walked...
...Chiropractor. On the other side it reads M. Jas. McGranaghan, Attorney at Law. He practices law from 9 to 12 each morning, chiropractic from 2 to 6 each afternoon, will take a case involving either profession at any hour. When he stops being a lawyer he lays aside his cigar, steps back of a curtain, puts on a black dressing gown edged with white...
With this successful storekeeping experience behind it, Atlas last week bought another big Manhattan store, Franklin Simon & Co. Like Bonwit Teller, Frank lin Simon is a collection of women's specialty shops, not a department store. Founded in 1902 by the son of a Manhattan cigar maker who started at 13 as a sample boy with Manhattan's Stern Brothers, Franklin Simon was the first big Fifth Avenue store above 34th Street. As Stern's foreign buyer, Simon became impressed by French style. When he opened his own store, he picked a Frenchman for his original partner...
...three plumped for Senator Russell and the New Deal. In his campaign for Governor two years ago Talmadge carried 156 of Georgia's 159 counties. On last week's electoral vote, which actually did the nominating, he carried only 16. The first political defeat in the earthy, cigar-chewing, gallus-wearing demagog's career, it sounded what most observers regarded as taps for Talmadge. With unwonted dignity Governor Talmadge ruefully declared: "I am in good health, in the prime of life, happy and thankful to the people of Georgia for the honors they have bestowed upon...
Dashing in his blue overalls to the southern front of Madrid's defenders near Talavera de la Reina, the new Premier conferred with the Red officer to whom for the first time had been entrusted supreme command of the capital's forces, cigar-chewing General Juan Asensio. The Premier told him that the Red expeditionary force which fortnight ago failed to take the Island of Mallorca from the Whites was returning to Madrid last week via Barcelona, strengthened by 5,000 of that independent city's Red Militia who had been hired to fight for the Government...