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Robert Vincent is 39. as a boy learned to record by doing chores around the old Edison studios in Manhattan. He lived for a time in Oyster Bay, where he got to know the late Theodore Roosevelt. His first recording was of Theodore Roosevelt's voice, greeting Vincent's Boy Progressives League on March 4, 1913, while Woodrow Wilson was being inaugurated President after outrunning Bull Mooser Roosevelt and Republican William Howard Taft. Said Teddy to the young Bull Moosers with unsquelched heartiness and bite: "Don't flinch, don't foul, and hit the line hard...
What manner of soul has Al Capone, only he and his Lord know. In the Terminal Island prison in San Pedro Bay, California (whither he was transferred last January), the nation's most notorious criminal attends Roman Catholic Mass, confesses his sins regularly. But, like most prisoners, who will do anything to get out of their cells, he also attends Protestant and Christian Science services. Last month a Baptist minister thought he saw a chance for Al Capone's soul, and plucked it forthrightly. The Rev. Silas A. Thweatt (rhymes with "bleat") of San Pedro, detailed...
...personal Saviour, he was the first to rise." That this "conversion" had taken place, no one doubted. Said Prison Warden E. J. Lloyd: "Sure, the ministers do that all the time. And there are always ten or fifteen men who raise their hands or rise. I don't know whether they really mean it or not." What Warden Lloyd did know, however, was that a prison rule forbade clergymen to talk publicly about such matters. When Baptist Thweatt's story got in the press last week, the Warden had his name stricken from the list of ministers eligible...
Gushed the Texan mother of Singer Mary Martin (My Heart Belongs to Daddy) after watching her daughter's strip-tease number in Leave It To Me: "I never saw a strip-tease . . . but now I know that the number is very, very artistic...
...happen to be from Utah, which, as you all know, is an important silver State. And I have said to friends of mine there that the foreign-silver purchase program does more in my opinion to ultimately destroy the domestic silver industry than anything else I know. . . . When you buy the world's silver you tend to destroy the use of silver elsewhere in the world. . . ." To document his point, Marriner Eccles pointed out that industrial consumption of silver had fallen more than 50% since the Treasury began gorging...