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Fletcher Riley, a candidate for governor, was stopped by California police on the way to visit his estranged wife and relieved of a revolver and a rifle. Charley Huff, running for secretary of state, limited his plea for votes to the boast that he was "the best damn cowboy singer in the world." In Sequoyah County, E. W. Floyd, a brother of the late Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, won the Democratic nomination for county sheriff. And Homer Cox, just declared sane after his mother asked an examination by a sanity board, lost his race for secretary of state. Sighed...
After two years, Tynan quit the Standard in a huff because the paper refused to stop printing letters criticizing his own acting. (Fleet Streeters also half-jokingly said that he infuriated his boss Lord Beaverbrook at a dinner party by blowing a smoke ring across the table into the Beaver's open mouth.) On Lord Rothermere's Sketch he found the tabloid an incongruous place for his erudite, allusive prose. But his new job on the more highbrow Observer is just the kind of spot that Tynan has wanted ever since Oxford. On the Observer, says...
Last night Huff glumly admitted in New York, "We haven't heard a thing." General MacArthur, who is currently chairman of the board of the Remington-Rand Corporation, could not be reached for comment...
Earlier this week, MacArthur's aide-de-camp Colonel Lawrence Huff told the CRIMSON that the General would be "delighted to receive his honorary degree this year, but he has not yet received an invitation." Last year, Huff made the public statement that the Hero of Bataan would be "to busy to come to Cambridge to pick up his degree." Apparently, he would not have received a degree even if he had been free to come...
...labor. But Co-Author Bob Taft thought the act far from perfect, later suggested more than a dozen amendments. Last year congressional committees took 7,000 pages of testimony on proposed changes in the 30-page act; none was made, and Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin resigned in a huff as a result. Now President Eisenhower has suggested 15 amendments and the political storm is blowing again...