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Scotsmen Don't Kick. Religion, politics and arson (dangerous subject) are taboo for the program's joke-making, but everything else, within the bounds of reasonable taste, goes. Hershfield, who is also a columnist (New York Daily Mirror) and cartoonist (Desperate Desmond), and Donald are grade-A dialect storytellers. This talent usually arouses protests from the nationality they have outraged. But Scotsmen never protest. During 1943 the favorite type of joke sent in by contestants has been that known as "moron." Sample: "Have you any children?" "Un happily, no." "That's too bad. I wanted...
Tall, genial Frank H. Bartholomew, 44, is a newsman who has in his time covered for the United Press such topflight news stories as the William Desmond Taylor murder in Los Angeles, the Thalia Fortescue Massie assault case in Honolulu, the Santa Barbara earthquake, the loss of the dirigible Macon. In 1938 he stopped reporting, became a United Press vice president, in charge of the Pacific Coast area. As such he sat behind a San Francisco desk, sent other United Pressmen forth to Pacific battlefields. But Frank Bartholomew grew restless...
...event, we know, and the anonymous "Executive Council" of the Harvard Committee Against Military Intervention must now know that their red herring was useless-it was too transparent. John Desmond Glover...
Charles S. Desmond (a judge of the New York Court of Appeals-at University of Buffalo): "Unhappy and unlucky are those who, for all their hate of national socialism, hope against hope to oppose our successive steps down the desperate road to war, who cannot bring themselves to believe that opposition to the evils of Naziism drives us, by logic and fate, straight to the battlefields...
...Industry Adviser Major Desmond John Falkiner Morton, broad-shouldered, black-mustached, was A.D.C. to Field Marshal Earl Haig during World War I, and since 1936 Director in the Department of Overseas Trade, where he built up what amounted to an economic secret service. Much of the data on the terrific secret strides Germany was making in war preparations with which Mr. Winston Churchill M. P. used to startle the House of Commons from time to time reputedly came from Major Morton, whose home is a cottage near Churchill's Westerham Manor...