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Only other man on the list, R. Bradbury Clark '46, begged off last night because of previous commitments as program director of WHRV, the College radio station...
Mexicali Ruse. In any case, as the committee knew beforehand, neither Mrs. Roosevelt nor anybody else on its "prominent persons" list had actually been of any help to Eisler. He got into the U.S. late in 1939 on a visa obtained from a "sleepy" consul at Mexicali, Mexico. The consul, Wyllis Myers, whom the committee did not bother to subpoena, issued the visa without bothering to check his files on Eisler...
Honored in Boston: Broadway Actress Ruth Gordon. On the Ritz-Carlton dessert list appeared a Coupe Rath Gordon...
Staggered by the Artists League of America: Yankee Hitter Joe DiMaggio, who found himself on the league's list of "the ten most interesting faces in America." Long-jawed Joe's face, bubbled the artists, was "reminiscent of Modigliani's paintings." Among the other most interesting: Eleanor Roosevelt, Danny Kaye, Sinclair Lewis and Kate Smith. What made Singer Smith's face so interesting: its "simplicity, understanding and kindness...
Every morning at 8:30 his secretary brings him a list of people who want to see him. Sproul ranks them in order of importance, from four checks down to one. He clips appointments to a 2O-minute maximum, allows himself three minutes in between to dictate a digest of the conversation. These digests are kept in bound volumes; callers are often astonished when Sproul picks up where he left off a year before...