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Star-Times Publisher Elzey Roberts countered with a defiant open letter to officious, slowfooted Dickmann. It was absurd, Roberts said, to make it "legal to listen to such news [by radio] and illegal to read it" in a paper. In Washington, Dickmann's fellow St. Louisan and political sponsor, Postmaster General Robert Hannegan, agreed with Publisher Roberts, and ruled that the law didn't literally mean what it said. Henceforth "incidental reporting of a lottery" will not bar a paper from the mails...
...first news of his elevation before Sunday breakfast, when a local radio station phoned him. Then messages came from his old friends Baseball Fan Jim Farley and Archbishop Spellman, finally official notification from. Apostolic Delegate Cicognani. When he was sure, Cardinal-designate Glennon spoke like a loyal St. Louisan: "The Holy Father didn't forget St. Louis. . . . Our Catholic people show greater fervor, more unity of spirit, deeper interest in Catholic activities the world over. The Holy Father must have had these things in mind when he gave the occupant of this see the Cardinal...
...critics have called "magical." Apparently carefree but quick on the trigger, Cartier-Bresson has snapped unforgettable, revelatory pictures of commonplace and sub-commonplace scenes, from bare French cafe tables to Mexicans with their pants down. Closest to him among U. S. photographers is a 35-year-old ex-St. Louisan with an inquiring nose and an unobtrusive but exacting eye. Walker Evans began with simple equipment ten years ago, mostly influenced by Matthew Brady's Civil War photographs and by the movies of Von Stroheim and Vertov. This week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art published American Photographs...
Last week he returned to the Philippines to visit the present Governor General, Dwight Filley Davis, aristocratic St. Louisan.* Local observers thought they intended negotiations with Japan regarding the great influx of Japanese at Davao, Island of Mindanao, where the Japanese have aroused the natives' ire by gaining control of more than 50% of the hemp industry...
...diversions, all but two of them new to St. Louis, will be staged by the newly-founded Theatre Society of St. Louis, similar to Manhattan's Theatre Guild. From more than 400 applicants, 32 agile St. Louis girls have been selected to skip in the choruses. Other St. Louisans are designing scenery, working backstage. Famed headliners-Mary Eaton, Leon Errol, Lulu McConnell-have already accepted contracts for the summer season. Like the city's successful Municipal Opera Company, the theatre will be in the open air, under a dome of boughs. Top price: $2.50. Life membership...