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...minute last January, Boss Edward Hull Crump was Mayor of Memphis, Tenn. His sole official act was to cancel his city's invitation to the American Newspaper Guild to hold its seventh annual convention in Memphis. Said Boss Crump: "You will not be welcome...
Last week, nevertheless, 150 Guild delegates met in Memphis without Boss Crump's blessing. Chief issue before them was a factional fight over the re-election of a small group of Manhattan executives (including Vice President Milton Kaufman, Secretary & Treasurer Victor Pasche, both paid officials, and Vice President Morris Watson, paid by C. I. O. as a union organizer) who actually run the Guild. Back of this factional fight was a bitter controversy...
...sissy trapper standing by while an Indian seized his horse. "That may be good art but it isn't true to nature," yelped angry Probate Judge John Jackson. "Any trapper who let an Indian get that close to his horse would be ostracized as unworthy of the guild...
...putting together The Missus Goes to Market, Bartlett employs the same technique, substituting for the Guild as the locale for his giddy interviews grocery stores in Chicago and Midwest towns. Collecting 75 to 125 housewives before his mike in a store, Bartlett grills them on such topics as whether they kissed their husbands the first time they met, rewards them with autographed soap boxes for responding. Also aired as a recording, it is assured an audience of housewives, eager to hear how they sound on the radio...
...crawled 18 inches at the age of a month, read, wrote her name, spelled 150 long words at two. At four she could, and persistently did, spell pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico-volcanoniosis.* A pianist since she was a little over three, Philippa Schuyler has repeatedly won prizes in tournaments of the National Guild of Piano Teachers, and in competitions of young listeners to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. She now studies at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan, has an I. Q. of 185 (showing a mental age of 16). One of her two piano teachers is an assistant of Pianist...