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...Jimmy" Byrnes is one of Franklin Roosevelt's most useful, trusted and intimate Senate lieutenants. Stunned, therefore, were other Administration Senators when the clerk read off the terms of his amendment: "It is further declared to be the public policy of the United States that no employe of any producer of coal whose employment has been terminated, or who for any reason has ceased to work for such producer, shall remain upon the property upon which he was employed after he has received a written notice from such producer to leave such property...
...lean, crinkle-eyed onetime Texas railroad clerk, Nelson had set the pace in the first round of the Augusta National Masters' Tournament with a record-breaking 66. His second round 72 left him in front, but after his third, a 75, ponderous Ralph Guldahl, whose third round was a 68, was four strokes ahead of him. Now, with nine holes left to play, Guldahl, just ahead of Nelson on the course, still had the same advantage...
...Platak, agile Chicago post-office clerk: the handball championship of the U. S., for the third year in a row; 21-13, 21-6 in the final against Past Champion Sam Atcheson of Memphis, Tenn.; in Chicago...
Driven by his chauffeur, accompanied at times by two other women and a 70-year-old named "Smitty" who called himself "St. John the Baptist," they toured around in a big automobile. Hotels accepted them as "St. John the Baptist & party of five," one room clerk noting on his register "a religious party on tour." "St. John the Revelator" introduced Miss Jewett to such Divine beliefs as that the Father could send a "vibration" from Harlem to Denver. Wrote she last week: "I felt a sudden chill. Everyone was pleased. They told me, 'that is Father Divine sending...
Born 57 years ago in Havre of a solid, bourgeois family, he became a clerk in his father's importing house, started to paint as a hobby about 1895. Five years later he went to Paris to make art his profession, stuck to conservative Beaux Arts training until the summer of 1905 when he saw his first picture by Henri Matisse. "Confronted by that picture," said Raoul Dufy, "I understood all the new reason for painting...