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...Stewart McDonald, the Administrator of Federal Housing . . . has just returned from London and Paris, where he turned his Scotch soul loose on tweeds. . . . His new little 'café au lait' number is becoming, and brings out the fine, lovely quality of his camellia-like complexion. . . . I'm sending 'Eve's Apple' to certain people, so, Stewie, when you get home tonight, you'll find it waiting...
...board of directors, since it can remove the manager after a hearing. More important for the voters is that the Councilmen are elected at large by proportional representation, which eliminates the primary and reflects, in Dean Landis's words, "as accurately as human ingenuity can devise, the complexion of your electorate...
...high hat and picket sign. Aching to prove he is no grasshopper, Georgia-born, 43-year-old Howard Hunter, who has spent one-third of all Federal money allotted to WPA in the last three years, made a wisecrack worthy of Harry Hopkins by disclosing he attributes his perfect complexion to the Tribune. "My stomach functions perfectly and I never take salts," said he. "I just read the Tribune every morning...
...most interesting man to watch among the enemy tomorrow is none other than the running back son of the Bruin Coach, little McLaughry, Jr. Austen Lake has called him "a lean, strapping 197-pounder with the same angular put-together and legginess of his sire, though swarthier in complexion and a brunet in place of his dad's blondness." That's quite a mouthful, but then this boy will have to be good, for the Bear ends are only fair, and the rest of the Bear line is going to have quite an afternoon tomorrow
...axes. Insofar as the show is a vehicle for any serious message from Labor, the latter declares its youthfulness and strength and its determination to get what's coming to it, but it is so free from vindictiveness and revolutionary urging that the spectators, no matter what their social complexion, applaud spontaneously without any secret twinges of alarm...