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First & Only. Plump, greying Anne McCormick, born in England, reared in Dayton, Ohio, began acquiring European background on trips abroad with her husband, Francis J. McCormick, a Dayton importer. In 1921 she became a free-lance contributor to the Times, soon landed a fulltime, roving job. She was one of the first reporters to spot Mussolini as a coming leader of Italy...
...Oxford Group meetings. He now disclaims any interest in the Oxford Group, has never met Founder Frank Buchman. Truman jokes that he always seems to get back in the old parish "about the time they are raising money." But Pastor E. W. Bowman says the Senator is a generous contributor. Although last week's Christian Century called Truman "a religious man," the Senator confesses that he has "never been a very active churchgoer." Last Sunday he was fishing in Chesapeake Bay with Speaker Sam Rayburn. But his view of churches is catholic: "I think they are all headed...
Virgil Franklin Partch 2nd became a cartoonist because he wanted to make a living sitting down. Last week, 28-year-old Cartoonist Partch (pen name: VIP) was sitting pretty. He was a regular Collier's contributor of two years' standing, he had a fat commercial advertising contract, and his first book of comic drawings, It's Hot in Here (McBride; $1) was selling fast in U.S. bookstores...
...author. Twenty years ago, when Ellin Mackay was a contributor to the struggling New Yorker (she wrote an article, then thought to be sensational on the dull life, of debutantes), she met Irving Berlin at Jimmy Kelly's Greenwich Village nightclub. Berlin had then written the four Music Box Revues, adding Say It with Music and A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody to his long list of hits. He had amassed a fortune of $5,000,000, enjoyed an income of $500,000 a year. Ellin Mackay, second daughter of wealthy Clarence (Postal Telegraph) Mackay and his blue...
...Another contributor was Elroy ("Crazy Legs") Hirsch of Wausau, Wis., who took third place in the broad jump, then drove 160 miles to Bloomington, Ind., to pitch Michigan's nine to its sixth successive Big Ten triumph...