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Delhi broadcasts in Urdu and Hindi. And A.I.R. hopes for a lingua franca that would make broadcasts from Delhi understandable to all of India. Stuck with the job of making radio interest the ryot is India's Radio Chief Lionel Fielden. Dapper, dark-mustached, youthful Broadcaster Fielden came to Indian radio two years ago from Eton and Oxford by way of B.B.C. What the ryot likes is folk music, drama, dirty stories. What he gets from Etonian Fielden's programs is clean amusement and instruction. The instruction, however, has to be well disguised. Instead of lecturing the ryot...
Kings County (Brooklyn) has for district attorney no racket buster but a dapper, grey-haired Democratic politician, William Francis Xavier Geoghan (Ghee-gan). When Commissioner Heriands began probing into District Attorney Geoghan's protracted investigation of Brooklyn's fur racket, he grew mightily suspicious, started an investigation of his own. Last fortnight the two investigations clashed over an habitual jailbird named Isidore Juffe. Mr. Juffe told the Herlands office that he had ''paid plenty" to keep out of jail in Brooklyn. District Attorney Geoghan said he had been at liberty as a stool pigeon, promptly clapped...
Republican Challenge. Republicans, meeting at Saratoga Springs, were able to agree unanimously on their one best bet: District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey of New York County, the slim, dapper 36-year-old who has gained national publicity through his prosecution of big-city rackets (72 convictions, one acquittal, one mistrial). The mistrial in his crowning case against Jimmy Hines, alleged Tammany protector of the "numbers" racket (TIME, Sept. 19), gave his partisans a last-minute sinking spell. But they felt that public opinion blamed Justice Ferdinand Pecora (a Democrat) more severely for his ruling than Prosecutor Dewey for the question...
...opening round of the Men's Open, most of the gallery followed the favorite, Robert Patrick ("Pat") Ball, Chicago grocer who had won the title three times. Others with a lively following were dapper John Dendy. defending champion who works as a locker boy at North Carolina's fashionable Asheville Country Club; and Hugh Smith, a Thomastown (Ga.) office boy who recently shot a 263 in a southern tournament and was forthwith sent to the national meet by his boss (for whom he caddies weekends...
...round-faced, dapper Charles Oilman Norris quit his job as a magazine editor and wrote a novel. He was galled because his chief claim to fame was that he was the husband of Kathleen Norris and the younger brother of the late, famed Frank Norris (McTeague, The Octopus...