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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Columnists Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen in their Washington Merry-Go-Round last week exploded a story, backed by affidavits, about diversion of WPA man power and materials to private uses in Louisiana. Chief privateer mentioned was none other than Governor Richard Webster Leche (rhymes with flesh), 41, the burly New Orleans lawyer whom Huey Long on his deathbed named as his political heir...
After free-lancing in New Zealand and Australia, David Low went to England in 1919, where he drew for the London Star ' until 1927, when Lord Beaverbrook hired him for his Evening Standard. There he has ever since made fun of his employer's arch-conservative opinions. This month, A Cartoon History of Our Times, the seventeenth and best collection of David Low's work, with an explanatory text by Quincy Howe (author of England Expects Every American To Do His Duty), is to be published in the U. S.* Covering the hectic years...
Informed by a Saturday Evening Post article that London tap water tastes like soap, but that King George & Queen Elizabeth like it anyway, Philadelphia Chemist LeRoy Drew Betz procured a sample from his London agents. Chemist Betz then duplicated its color, hardness, chemical content, using as a base distilled water from the Schuylkill, sent 25 gallons to the White House ("purely as a gesture of patriotism and a possible means of increasing the comfort of the visiting monarchs...
This is just 1,000 times what the first Waring orchestra drew down for its first engagement, in Tyrone, Pa., 21 years ago. Fred, 18, was then in Penn State, studying architecture and engineering. His younger brother Tom and the boy next door, a dark, antic trap-drummer named Poley McClintock, had a two-piece piano & drums outfit that used to pick up occasional pin money playing for Victory dances, etc. They invited Fred, a violinist who preferred the banjo to join in. Another banjoist, Fred Buck, joined too. Four-strong, they barnstormed Pennsylvania's busy mining district, picked...
HARVARD--Healey and Johns drew walks. Gannett's short single to left loaded the sacks. Grondahl flied to left and Healey scored when Holt's threw hopped over Schroeder's head into the Yale dugout. Wood's wild pitch cleaned the bases, Johns and Gannett tallying. Lupien popped to short and Hoye fanned. One hit, three runs...