Word: limelighters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most sensitive bump on Italy's shin bone last week was tiny, historic Ravello. There, in the snug, age-whitened Villa Cimbrone, overlooking the blue Mediterranean from its mountain perch, two people were trying not to notice that all the world was watching them. The man: snowy-haired, limelight-loving, 55-year-old Conductor Leopold Stokowski, whose American wife divorced him last December. The woman: Hollywood's No. 1 recluse, Greta Garbo...
...jobholders who rode into the national limelight on the coattails of the New Deal, few have shone more wonderfully than baldish, hairy-handed, big-talking Major George L. Berry. Since 1933 he has been a member o. the NRA's Labor Advisory Board of Cotton Textile and the NRA's Mediation Board for Steel & Coal, divisional NRA administrator, custodian of the NRA's bones after its demise, Co- ordinator for Industrial Cooperation, chairman of John L. Lewis' pro-Roosevelt Labor's Non-Partisan League, and finally junior U. S. Senator from Tennessee. Last week...
...anyone with a sincere desire to keep out of the limelight, the advisability of making a solo flight from the U. S. to Europe is open to question. Whether, having made the first non-stop solo flight from the U. S. to Europe in 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh thereby justified the U. S. press in considering that his private life was public property is open to question also. Last week, the sad and puzzling problem of the No. 1 U. S. hero's relation to the No. 1 U. S. institution of hero-worship was raised once more when...
...Washington, the Senate managed to stop filibustering about antilynching, but debate had not become notably intelligent. In the House, the most noteworthy result of, the second week was an opportunity long sought for one of that body's most obscure members to project himself briefly into the national limelight...
Transition- Year before last the Court's nine old men were bathed in historic limelight when they waded into the New Deal's first crop of economic measures, invalidating NRA and AAA and upholding the Government's right to cancel the gold clauses in all contracts. Last term the nine were the centre of a political death struggle unequaled since the Civil War, brought about by Franklin Roosevelt's desire to insure the constitutionality of his future legislative program by adding sympathetic Justices to the bench. The excitement of the current court term will be different...