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...Bailey, Louisiana's Secretary of State, died suddenly of pneumonia. Governor Huey Parham Long, the State's 36-year-old political dictator, went around to the Bailey home to offer condolences. When he returned to the capitol, he said to pretty little Miss Alice Lee Grosjean, his hazel-eyed, auburn-haired, 24-year-old confidential secretary: "Miss Grosjean, write out a commission appointing Miss Alice Lee Grosjean Secretary of State, effective at once." An hour later Miss Grosjean took the oath of office, telephoned her parents at Shreveport that she was "just thrilled to death." Thus did Louisiana...
...coronation of Carol, buck-toothed King of Rumania, was suddenly and definitely postponed last week from Oct. 15 to an indefinite date in the spring of 1931. Every Rumanian knew the reason. Patient, hazel-eyed Queen Helen, whose presence at the coronation is vital if Carol is to retain any of his present popularity in Rumania, suddenly decided that reconciliation with the man who deserted her five years ago to elope to France with a red-headed Jewess was more than she could stomach. She fled to Mamaia with her son Prince Mihai for a vacation in the clean fresh...
...Died. Hazel Lee Roberts Johnson, 36, daughter of famed Mayor-Judge Edwin Ewing Roberts of Reno, Nev., wife of Walter Perry ("Big Train") Johnson, famed oldtime baseball pitcher, now manager of the Washington "Senators"; of pleurisy after a short illness; in Washington...
...primary having polled the 35% of the total vote required for nomination (TIME, May 19). No. 1 in the primary had been Secretary of State Gladys Pyle, running strong on her personal popularity, without organization support. No. 5 and last had been Warren E. Green, dirt farmer of Hazel. For eleven ballots in the Pierre convention Miss Pyle deadlocked with Brooke Howell of Frederick for first place. Suddenly Mr. Howell, on orders from the state organization, withdrew, throwing his support to Last Man Green, who was nominated on the next ballot. Thus machine politics had routed personality, topsy-turvied...
More versatile than they was their father, the late James Steele MacKaye (1842-94), painter, actor, playwright, producer, lecturer on esthetic philosophy, inventor. His Hazel Kirke (1879) ran longer than any U. S. play until Frank Bacon's Lightnin' (1918). He organized the first U. S. school of expression, originated "harmonic gymnastics," first used over-head lighting in theatres, invented folding theatre chairs...