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...Clara Clemens Samassoud, daughter of Samuel (Mark Twain) Clemens, sued Columbia Pictures for $300,000 for filming his The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, as "a corny love story...
...seven years as a sportwriter on the New York Journal-American, Hearstling Jeane Hoffman has covered everything from a frog-jumping contest to the World Series and the Belmont Stakes. ("I'm so tall," she says, "I have to interview jockeys sitting down.") In between, hard-boiled Reporter Hoffman found time to toss off some sport features for the Gazette. In naming her executive editor, Publisher Harold H. Roswell gave her orders to try to recapture the Gazette's bygone glories as the "sportsmen's bible...
...hall. Bill Boyle almost wept as he stood listening to the roar of the crowd's applause. Vice President Alben Barkley was inspired to a stirring attack on Republicans. Challenging the G.O.P.'s new campaign slogan, he cried: "Will those people who see in every tree frog a roaring lion, and in every angleworm a spreading adder, please rise and tell us what is statism...
...ceremony. Donelson, an ex-G.L, ran a newspaper advertisement: "Wanted, one girl under 21, to get married by Saturday." After interviewing only a few of 253 willing candidates, he chose gangling, 18-year-old Irene Krebbs and married her exactly on schedule before a big crowd at the Frog Hop ballroom...
...Maker Jay Kraus last week. He expected about 300,000 to sell this year-nothing like the 1,000,000 sold to flappers and friends in 1925, but good as compared with the 40,000-to-60,000 average in the early '40s. One explanation for the demand: frog-voiced Arthur Godfrey's use of the uke on his television show...