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...damning dance halls. He was proving to a skeptical Anglican parson (Frank Greene) miracles could still be performed, and he hit on the dance hall only because it was handy. The miracle was a fine success, but the Pope disapproved. "Too showy and new-fangled," said the bishop (St. Clair Bayfield). The dance-hall customers also complained, although, after the cabaret took off from its Edinburgh street, it made a perfect three-point landing on a crag at sea without spilling a drink or disturbing the floor show...
...hawser, and at 6-m.p.h. started a three-week tow up the Hudson to Troy (142-mi.), through New York's Barge Canal to Oswego on Lake Ontario (184-mi.), and 1,045 more miles through Lake Ontario, the Welland Canal, Lake Erie, St. Clair River, Lake Huron, the Straits of Mackinac, then due south through Lake Michigan to Whiting. By Halloween, Mr. Kellogg expected to deliver one of the biggest single pieces of freight ever shipped...
With Mr. White gone, and until Mr. Thurber's return next spring, the guiding minds of The New Yorker will be Editor Harold Ross, St. Clair McKelway, Wolcott Gibbs and Mrs. White (Katharine Sergeant Angell), who remains in Manhattan as managing editor. But "Notes and Comment" will be written by a newcomer to the metropolitan scene, Romeyn ("Rym") Berry, longtime (1919-36) graduate manager of athletics at Cornell University. Rym Berry is about as much like Andy White as a polar bear is like an amoeba. Shy, smallish Mr. White first met big Mr. Berry, who is the equal...
Republicans had nominated a case-hardened politician, George E. Leach, Mayor of Minneapolis from 1921 to 1929, whose administration was marked by gambling scandals. Farmer-Laborites, after a split among themselves which eliminated their present Mayor, Thomas E. Latimer, nominated Kenneth Clair Haycraft, 1928 All-America end at the University of Minnesota. Young and inexperienced, End Haycraft did his best against a shrewder oldster. But when the votes were counted, Mayor Leach was in by a majority of some 17,000 votes. On its first independent try since it was orphaned, the once victorious Farmer-Labor Party was ditched...
Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes entered Washington's Naval Hospital for a stomach examination and three-weeks' rest...