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...regime, so did its editorial vigor. The paper lost none of its integrity or decency, but did become much brighter than in the days of the ultra-conservative Lawson. Horse race results, forbidden by Publisher Lawson, blossomed on the front page. A mid-week magazine, edited by dapper, energetic Charles Robert Douglas Hardy Andrews, was added to the Wednesday editions. A vigorous campaign against gangsters resulted in the closing of racketeer-owned dog tracks. Its enviable reputation for foreign correspondence was heightened with an expenditure of some $250,000 a year on that feature alone. In circulation...
Third in the Open, two strokes behind Burke and Von Elm, was green-eyed Leo Diegel. On his second round, he had sunk his tee shot at the 13th hole, the first hole-in-one made in an Open since 1922. Fourth was Gene Sarazen, dapper little ex-caddy...
Nonetheless, since a big fight is always a social event of sorts, trains, planes, and autos were crowded going into Cleveland last week. A yacht brought Wisconsin's dapper young Senator La Follette; a plane brought Edsel Ford; trains brought Chicago's Mayor Cermak, onetime Heavyweight Champions James J.Corbett (1892-97), James J. Jeffries (1899-1905), James Joseph Tunney (1926-28). Bobby Jones, who had been at Toledo to watch the Open golf championship (see p. 24), came over for the weekend. But trains and autos failed to bring the expected big crowds of noncelebrities...
Official opener of New York City's summer outdoor concert season is that dapper, 53-year-old white-headed boy among U. S. bandmasters, Edwin Franko Goldman. Every summer his concerts take place during a ten-week season on alternate nights at Central Park Mall...
Last week the War Policies Commission, chairmanned by dapper, pink-cheeked Secretary of War Hurley, concluded its public hearings, prepared to write a report for the President. Created by Congress, it had heard many a witness, some with ideas, more without, on how to take the profit out of war. No proposal had gained more attention or stirred more discussion than that of Bernard Mannes Baruch, Wartime head of the War Industries Board, for "freezing" all prices by presidential proclamation at the outbreak of War (TIME, May 25). At the Commission's closing session Mr. Baruch reappeared to answer...