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...Hale & hearty but nearing 70, Robert Hervey Cabell retired last week as president of Armour & Co., announced he would go to war-jittery England in January, to adjust personal financial interests acquired there during his 20 years as Armour's London representative. His successor: Executive Vice-President George Eastwood...
...allegedly unpaid income taxes, penalties and interest, liable upon conviction to more than 100 years in prison, 61-year-old Publisher Annenberg affably quipped in Philadelphia: "From the efforts and demands of the Government agents, it appears that I may well paraphrase the words of Nathan Hale-my only regret is that I haven't enough remaining years to give my country." Immensely rich, newly humble Moses Annenberg was meat for Cartoonist Daniel Fitzpatrick, who in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch limned a pigmy Annenberg fleeing a gigantic and pursuing Uncle Sam, quipped: "Anybody making book on this race...
...Dewey rigorously followed Rules 5, 6, 7 of How To Become President (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930), by cooperating fulsomely with the Press, by traveling about, by appearing hale and lusty on all occasions. For the camera he let his mother pin a flower in his buttonhole; he vigorously strode up & down Owosso's Main Street; he posed chummily with Farmer Earl Putnam, who once paid him $30 a month to run a cultivator, do chores; he ate Mrs. Putnam's noonday "dinner" of home-cured ham, eggs, new potatoes, corn from the patch, fresh cherry pie. He played...
...modern art lovers the attractions of this fulsome allegory have considerably tarnished. They tarnished even for MacMonnies, who went on to further fame with such works as Manhattan's Nathan Hale, Civic Virtue, France's Marne Memorial, before he died. But to the Congress of the United States its beauties are undimmed. Last week Congress passed a bill to authorize the fountain's reproduction in marble as a Washington memorial to the late, great MacMonnies...
Prokofieff: Peter and the Wolf (Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Richard Hale, narrator; Victor, 6 sides). An engaging "orchestral fairy tale," full of duck-quacks (oboe), bird-twitters (flute), wolf-growls (horns), jovially rendered by the Bostonians who gave it its first U. S. hearing last year. Album of the month...