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...organizer was William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, the man who led the "Equalization Fee March" around the Republican National Convention hall last year in Kansas City. Ever an enthusiast, Organizer Settle said last week in Chicago: "This is the greatest day in the history of agriculture since I can remember. . . . This is what we have been dreaming for years?united action? and it's the first time it has been realized. . . . President Hoover is sincerely trying to carry out the pledge he made...
...tremendous collection of the world's best children's books, partially selected by children themselves.* Progressive pedagogs stopped in the commercial section where educational films were being projected continually, or wandered to the exhibit of Britain's use of radio in teaching. Most modern, and with greatest possibilities perhaps, was a "home talkie" made by Home Talkie Productions, Inc., giving a biology professor's lecture as if he were in a classroom. Most of the teachers attending the exhibit, which will remain open during August, were in Geneva for the Congress of the World Federation...
Harry Richman, Manhattan night club man, explained how he became engaged to Clara Bow, cinema "It" girl (TIME, July 22). Said he: "I got tough with her. Instead of saying yes I said what I pleased and won the greatest little girl that ever lived." Next day Cinemactress Bow snapped: "When I need a boss, I'll put an advertisement in the paper." She said she was not at all sure about the engagement...
John Gilbert, cinemactor, honeymooning with Ina Claire, actress, besieged by reporters, said: "Really, I'm not the world's greatest lover...
...also probable that the average spectator at a ball game enjoys plenty of hitting and is bored by the old-fashioned "pitchers' battle." No one has ever yet booed a homerun and certainly the greatest crowd-getter in recent years has been Homerunner Ruth. The question raised against the "lively" ball seems only to be whether homeruns may not become too common. In a Brooklyn-Pittsburgh encounter lately, nine homeruns were hit in one afternoon...