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...about the Herald, a consistent money-loser with a piddling circulation of 60,000. It was a happy solution for both, and the only long faces were those of Joseph Medill Patterson, who did not like the idea of his sister working for his archrival, and Alice Roosevelt Longworth. who was promptly made the butt of "Cissy" Patterson's front-page chatter...
...visit to the Cincinnati Zoo, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth had the keeper bring a 6-ft. king snake from the new reptile house, calmly fondled it as it coiled about her neck. "It never occurred to me to be afraid of them," shrugged she. who as a girl visited Walter Damrosch (see p. 47) at Bar Harbor with a green snake, Emily Spinach. Impressed, said Keeper Joseph A. Stephan: "Snakes know people who understand them. Mrs. Longworth does. The snake acted as if it were in the hands of an old friend...
Would you mind answering it? 'Could you tell us the average age of world dictators when they come into power?' " Said Mr. Miller: "No, I could not." Everyone turned to stare at the two women. One of them was easily recognized as Alice Longworth, but she was not the writer of the note. Columnist Dorothy Thompson, wife of Sinclair (It Can't Happen Here) Lewis, was. One of the witnesses was Ferdinand Pecora, Justice of New York's Supreme Court. Familiar with Senate investigationl from his Job as chief inquisitor in the banking investigation...
Many times heralded as one of the best photographs of the year is this actively impressionistic photograph of Bandleader Cab Calloway by Bert Longworth. It is reprinted here by special permission of the editors of U. S. Camera 1936. He'd make a swell interference runner Giant Neil Simpson and Gerald Kagel, coaches the South Dakota School of Mines 1037 graduates shake hands with Tyramusruns Rex, a reptile what the Redlands 40,000,000 years ago and is now a resident of the WPA's Dinosaur Park near Sioux Falls...
...Camels. Senator Reynolds admitted that he smoked Camels but he assured questioners that he did smoke and enjoy Lucky Strikes on occasion. No other Lucky Strike-endorsing Senator would speak up but that there were more was clearly indicated one night last week when smart, socialite Alice Roosevelt Longworth commercialized herself in Washington over a nation-wide Lucky Strike radio hookup. Mrs. Longworth set a new high of some kind when she described the superior clarity with which the voices of Lucky Strike-smoking Senators could be heard in the Senate gallery...