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Divorced. Mary McCormic, 38, Chicago Opera star in the heyday of Samuel Insull; from her third husband, Homer V. Johannsen, 36, Chicago attorney; in Chicago. Charge: cruelty. Diva McCormic's second husband was the late Serge Mdivani...
During the 52 years George Bannerman Dealey has worked for and run the Dallas News (a.m.) and Journal (p.m..), those newspapers have taken more than one unpopular but righteous stand. They were against the Ku Klux Klan during its heyday in Texas in the early 19205. They bucked demagogic Governor "Jim" Ferguson. They refused to take oil promotion advertising during the Burkburnett, Ranger, Eastland and East Texas booms. Last week, seven days after the Legislature outlawed all forms of race-track betting in Texas, Publisher Dealey, now 77, again placed his papers in the position of doing the virtuous thing...
...gladly return and sing with all my soul." For five years Sparrow Gigli warbled in Continental concerts, grew a paunch in Munich beer halls, dabbled in German cinemas. Then Hollywood finally called him again to the U. S. Last week, much fatter than in his Metropolitan heyday and resembling both New York's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia and Chicago's Scarface Al Capone, he made his U. S. cinema debut in Forever Yours, by all odds the best operatic picture of the year...
...Philadelphia partners were first to use the Hoe cylinder press.* Next great progressive step of the Sun was its Iron Building, put up in 1851, first office structure in America made on the steel-frame principle of the modern skyscraper. Here the Sun settled down for a heyday which was ended by the Civil...
Professors have always been a byword and a hissing to Wall Street, and-except for their late brief heyday-not too highly regarded in Washington. But in 1932 appeared a book by a professor, and a Spaniard at that, which was read with respect by brokers and Senators alike. The Revolt oj the Masses (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932) was one of those surprise best-sellers which was not aimed at the large depression-chastened audience it found. That book established Professor José Ortega y Gasset in the U. S. consciousness as an original and forceful thinker-about-civilization. Last...