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...since often thought, in declining, I was foolish. Perhaps I was wise-I might have chosen U. of Penn. Thanks to TIME I have endeavored to make up for this lack of college education by assiduously reading your educational weekly since its birth. Similar to "Philosopher'' (not Funnyman) Rogers, about all I know is what I read in TIME and the papers. A telephonic check-up this morning on Georgia Tech., Oglethorpe University and Agnes Scott College reveals that these "narrow-minded'' southern institutions of learning all have TIME on their library lists and have...
Predicted Funnyman Will Rogers: ''Mr. Wrigley . . . did a thing today that will eventually become universal...
From his first major defeat the President could pluck a few bits of comfort. The waterway project split the ranks of both parties, and votes were determined mainly by sectional issues. Said Funnyman Will Rogers: "Every Senator voted against it if it didn't run by his house." Although he had pressed firmly for the treaty's ratification the President did not at the last moment roll up his sleeves and try to whip reluctant Senators into line. Even Leader Robinson made no stirring final appeal. Because it has more important measures to ram through, the Administration refrained...
...remove his name from the directors' list in order to persuade Eddie Cantor to remain. That, Winchell vehemently denied. He said he had resigned because he believed the scheme dishonest; that he printed his attack for the same reason. At the trial in a Manhattan court last fortnight. Funnyman Cantor testified for Winchell. Stormed Winchell on the stand: "I said it was a racket and I still...
Finished with Baron Munchausen (Funnyman Jack Pearl), Lucky Strikes undertook to sponsor the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts hitherto paid for by National Broadcasting out of its own pocket as a sustaining program. The Metropolitan will be on the air Saturday afternoons and for special matinees, starting on Christmas with Hansel und Gretel. The Lucky Strike contract is worth at best $100,000 to the hard-pressed...