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...other they tuned their engines, could be seen the pilots, the ablest outboard and runabout "bugs" in the country, off again on the annual 142-mile race to Manhattan. Many of them were professionals little known outside the outboard motor trade, but there were amateurs too: Kirk Ames, stage funnyman; Harold Chapman, who won the race around Manhattan last summer; Bog Flagg, Worcester, Mass., schoolboy; four girls, one of them-Anne Townsend of Greenwich-aged 13 and having her father with her as mechanic in her runabout; C. Phelps Stevens, whose trade nickname is Jonah because he usually gets...
Once a famed comic artist, Funnyman Anthony joined the staff of Judge in 1920, became editor two years later. In 1929 Life hired him away, to succeed its outgoing Editor Robert Emmet Sherwood. Again?so his story runs?he ran afoul of the sensibilities of advertisers and, exactly one year ago, was dismissed. Now he is suing Life's President Clair Maxwell, alleging violation of a verbal five-year contract...
...Play. Brightest event of the A. N. P. A. meeting was the dinner of its bureau of advertising, addressed by Funnyman Will Rogers. Twitting the publishers for their fear of radio, Rogers observed sarcastically: "If you hear any peculiar noise on the radio tonight it will be people breaking up their radios after reading a resolution adopted here today. If you really want to stop the development of radio advertising, either find a home-made cure for pyorrhea or murder Amos and Andy. Why, there will still be a radio in every home when people pay 10¢ to see what...
Whatever liberties Funnyman Will Rogers may permit himself in conversation, the homely humor of his syndicated daily squibs is lily-pure, fit for consumption by all the households reached by clean home newspapers. Hence, Rogers-readers were mildly astonished one day last week to find in his "letter to the editor" a comment which might have passed unnoticed in scores of other colyums but which, for Rogers, verged on the "raw." Returning from Managua to the U. S. via Venezuela by plane, Will Rogers wrote...
...Producer Hammerstein's shows seemed to grow poorly and more poorly. His first play of this season, Luana, during the rehearsals for which he got hurt in a fight (TIME, Aug. 11), was a failure. His second show, Ballyhoo, was taken over after a two-week run by Funnyman W. C. Fields and the cast. Philosophical about his losses, 54-year-old Producer Hammerstein said last week: "When Mayor Walker comes back I will ask him to take the statue of my father and put it in some public place-possibly around Times Square. It is a curious thing...