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Since great Raymond Poincaré had already refused President Gaston Doumergue's request that he again take the helm, no candidate seemed outstanding. Chances were even that M. Tardieu might again succeed himself as Prime Minister, as he did when his first Cabinet fell (TIME, March...
...Kiwanians squirmed with discomfort last week. Other thoughtful citizens deplored. U. S. visitors were in a ferment of indignation. For, despite many a protest, Vancouver's loud evening Sun ("Vancouver's most useful institution") was publishing serially The Strange Death of President Harding by onetime Federal Sleuth Gaston B. Means (TIME, March 31). The U. S. Consul General was besieged with outraged demands for formal action. One Californian wired to Senator Hiram Johnson urging "proper protest against . . . insult." Nothing happened. The Strange Death of President Harding was widely circulated and reported in the U. S. last spring...
GEORGE C. GASTON...
...Ferdinand Pecora, onetime chief assistant district attorney in Manhattan, a name well known to readers of Manhattan crime news. Chief counsel for defense was George Gordon Battle, noted Manhattan lawyer, attorney for the New York Stock Exchange. Other parts were taken by professionals, notably including Rosamond (The Miracle) Pinchot Gaston, socialite niece of Pennsylvania's Governor-elect Gifford Pinchot, in the role of the accused, lovely "Vivienne Ware." For promotion purposes the case was submitted to a jury, the mystery left unsolved. The jurors, of course, were the radio public. Money prizes were offered by the American...
Madge Kennedy, playing in Michael & Mary at Boston, was bruised about the face in an automobile accident while returning from the Gloucester home of Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr. in the company of William Gaston, husband of Rosamond Pinchot (niece of Governor- elect Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania). Miss Kennedy was treated at a hospital under the name of "Mary Campbell of Los Angeles...