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Tune Detective Radio has figured largely among the activities of Dr. Sigmund Spaeth, handyman and jack-of-all-trades among U. S. musicians. Last year Dr. Spaeth directed for National Broadcasting Co. a "Keys to Happiness" program of piano instruction...
...Record Man, Busier than a busy bee at Roosevelt headquarters in Manhattan last week was small, wrinkle-faced Louis McHenry Howe, the Governor's personal secretary and political handyman. What Mrs. Belle Moskowitz was to Alfred Emanuel Smith, what George Edward Akerson was to Herbert Hoover, what Edward ("Ted") Clark was to Calvin Coolidge, Louis Howe is to Franklin Roosevelt. A newshawk for the old New York Herald, he attached himself in 1911 to Mr. Roosevelt who took him along to the Navy Department. They have been together ever since, call each other "Franklin" and "Louis," share the Governor...
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Tall Dictator Josef Stalin recently sent his smallish, smart handyman Andrey Andreevich Andreev to plug and patch the biggest 1931 gap in Russia's Five Year Plan?the failure of Russian railways to haul their planned quotas (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week the new Commissar for Transport showed himself a chip off Stalin's block, plugged and patched ruthlessly right and left...
Boom prospects attracted to Las Vegas, along with many another adventurer, one Blair Coan, onetime handyman of the Republican National Committee. He bobbed up in Las Vegas to start a newspaper. In Los Angeles to buy printing equipment, Blair Coan declared of Las Vegas...