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...earned a $3,000 fee from Alabama with a study "proving"' the biological inferiority of Negroes. It is rightly proud of such alumni as President James K. Polk (1818), and wryly proud of such graduates as the late swindler Gaston B. Means ('22), described by Historian Archibald Henderson as "the most able, ingenious and imaginative criminal...
...President is saddening proof of how old pros can fail, it also points up a danger to which seasoned theater hands are prone, that of substituting showmanly expertise for solid substance. Despite a disclaimer, the character of President Stephen Decatur Henderson (Robert Ryan) is fairly obviously modeled on Ike, and his First Lady (Nanette Fabray) could double for Jackie Kennedy. This opportunistically split ticket suggests the synthetic viewpoint of a show that never intended to say something, but merely to trade on exalted somebodies...
...Loyalists in 1936, downed 22 Japanese planes with the Flying Tigers in World War II - but always insisted his most harrowing experience was flying the 347 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles upside down; in the crash of his 1940 Waco biplane, while doing low-altitude stunts; in Henderson...
...tone, the rhythmic stride and the air of unfettered delight that made Hawkins an immediate success when he broke in with the old Fletcher Henderson band in 1923. A St. Joseph (Mo.) boy, Hawkins was only 19; he had been playing the sax since he was nine, had been making good money working proms and club dates from his mid-teens. ("I never played for $5 a night in my life," says Hawkins with pride. "I was always a rich musician.") As the first jazzman of any real talent to play the tenor sax, Hawkins quickly built a reputation...
Refute Muckrakers. Neither Henderson nor Moore are innkeepers at heart. They started out after World War I with $1,000 and a vague desire to refute those muckrakers who argued that no business could grow big without violating ethical standards. In 1931, after trying every thing from radio manufacturing to importing German shepherd dogs, they set up one of the nation's first mutual funds, and in the course of making investments for it acquired the struggling Stonehaven Hotel in Springfield, Mass. Impressed with the swiftness with which the Stonehaven's earnings responded to rigorous management, they bought...