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...made a great reputation for personal heroism, returned from France with his mud-splashed tunic heavy with medals. As U. S. District Attorney at Buffalo, he was drastic enough to lose some friends locally but to be called to Washington to assist the Attorney General. For three years with Mabel Walker Willebrandt, he practically ran the Department of Justice over the hulking shoulder of easy-going John Garibaldi Sargent. He climbed on the Hoover bandwagon early, rode it hard and helpfully through the campaign, expected as his reward the Attorney Generalship. When that post went to another. Colonel Donovan...
...Hoover's policies, well and good, but tell us your reasons in a big way. Don't insinuate, don't sneak in behind and then waste the time of your readers with such trash. I am ashamed to have your issue on my table. (MRS.) MABEL POTTER PAYNE...
Since the arrival of talkies, most of Hollywood's new female celebrities have been imported either from the Manhattan stage or from European cinema. Not so Karen Morley. Christened Mabel Linton in Ottumwa, Iowa, she went to Los Angeles when she was 13, attended Holly wood High School. After her sophomore year at the University of California at Los Angeles she joined the Pasadena Com munity Playhouse. When Director Clarence Brown was casting male actors for Inspiration, he asked Karen Morley, hired as an extra, to read Greta Garbo's lines. She did it well enough to get a screen...
...Grandi and German Chancellor Heinrich Briining were already in Geneva the world Press treated its readers to such headlines as SURPRISE 5-POWER PARLEY.* What did it all mean? In Geneva one of the first things reported by correspondents was the behavior of Mrs. Henry Lewis Stimson (the former Mabel Wellington White of New Haven, Conn.) as she was escorted into the Geneva Disarmament Conference Building by Mr. MacDonald...
...John Berress of Minneapolis, who charged that while drunk Mix grappled with him, shook a large fist; getting sued by Col. Zack T. Miller for alleged jumping of a contract with Miller's now defunct 101 Ranch Circus; nearly dying from peritonitis following an appendectomy; marrying one Mabel Hubbell Ward...