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...White House came Artist James Montgomery Flagg to present Tree-Lover Roosevelt with a gift. It was a poster for the Forest Service, showing Uncle Sam, wearing goatee and something resembling...
...School of Industrial Art, who in winter teaches art at Germantown High School, does odd jobs for newspapers. His biggest tip ($2) came from his biggest customer, Primo Camera. Jack Dempsey, Jackie Coogan, Max Baer each gave him $1, Al Jolson 50?. Once he sketched Sketcher James Montgomery Flagg who thereupon jumped off the boardwalk, sketched Sketcher Faier. But when Flagg finished for Faier a picture of a mother & moppet, the mother declared it a bad likeness, angrily tossed Flagg...
With the death of Morse and Rogers, John K. Browne '69 becomes the oldest graduate in years at 93, while Isaac Flagg '64, only three months younger than Browne is the oldest graduate in regard to class. William E. Marsh '62, who never graduated remains the oldest alumnus, having reached...
Next morning Ruby Hart ("Miss Nebraska") announced that she was homesick, sped to Newark airport, flew back to Omaha. That left only 47 beauties to appear that evening in the ballroom of the Steel Pier before a committee composed of Illustrators James Montgomery Flagg and Russell Patterson, Vincent Trotter of Paramount Pictures' Art Department, George B. Petty of Esquire, Photographer Hal Phyfe. Black-haired, blue-eyed Rose Veronica Coyle, 22, of Yeadon, Pa. became "Miss America of 1936," won a trip by air to Hollywood and a screen test.* Convulsively clutching her loving-cup, Rose Veronica Coyle beamed, squealed...
...gains sensibility. Author Richard Sherman, adapting in collaboration with Howard Ellis Smith, retained the same care with topical allusion that set his story above the average standard in the Saturday Evening Post. Excellent are the carefully dated gowns, furniture, and cliches ("You're the Berries," "Think Fast, Captain Flagg," "They Just Dropped In and Took The Place Over") ; the stock-shots of outstanding news events, including Manhattan's welcome to Lindbergh; the songs and even the mental attitudes of the periods dealt with. Carpers will find a few inaccuracies: "This is the Voice of Experience...