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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day in Connecticut the frenzy of the Massachusetts visit was reproduced. Connecticut's popular and able Governor Wilbur ("Uncle Toby") Cross, instead of being kept at arm's length like Governor Curley, was applauded in every Roosevelt speech beginning before the State Capitol (where eleven women and a boy fainted) and ending at Stamford (where several people were injured in an automobile crash). In each town through which the President motored, the schools were dismissed and a general holiday proclaimed. At New Haven where Yale dormitories were decked with Landon banners but no boos were uttered...
...much as possible the Mrs. Simpson story, and in recent weeks Hearst editors have repeatedly blue-penciled or killed dispatches from London on this subject. Sir Godfrey Thomas, for 15 years Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales and now Assistant Private Secretary to King Edward, recently conferred at length with Mr. Hearst. This week Mr. Hearst's U. S. executives believed that the King had personally authorized their Chief to break the news of Edward VIII's intentions. From London by telephone suddenly came to Hearst editors, with authority to front-page it at once, a story...
...Beck told his colleagues at Philadelphia that a patient who came to him for an operation to relieve hardening of a coronary artery had a 50-50 chance to survive. Taking the chance, Surgeon Beck opened the man's chest, detached a length of pectoral muscle, made a hole in the sac called pericardium, which encases the heart, and with a burr abraded a raw spot on the beating heart. Against that raw spot he placed the raw end of the pectoral muscle. Within a short time blood vessels grew out of the muscle and into the heart, thus...
...until 1921, when Westinghouse let onetime Sergeant Wallace out of a press agent's job, did he have an actual chance to get into the business of reselling U. S. magazine material condensed to about a quarter of its original length. First office of Reader's Digest was in Manhattan's arty Minetta Lane. First staff consisted of Publisher Wallace and his wife. Their magazine promptly prospered beyond the Wallaces' wildest hopes, moved in 1923 to suburban Pleasantville, N. Y., flourished further, and last year grossed $2,178,000. Published in FORTUNE for the first time...
Last week Allan Nevins, whose biography of Grover Cleveland won him the Pulitzer Prize for 1932, offered a full-length portrait of the Secretary that clarified the disorder of Grant's regime, revealed aspects of U. S. political life of which few voters have been aware. Fish was an excellent choice as central figure for such a study. Unchangeable, incorruptible, with his prejudices, political views and limitations firmly fixed by the time he took office, he served as a standard of consistency against which the dishonesties and irresponsibilities of his colleagues could be measured. Hamilton Fish: The Inner History...