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Twin loves of California's old (71), fun-having Senator William Gibbs McAdoo are dancing, flying. In Washington the National Aeronautic Association, of which he is president, held a dance to award its annual "certificates of reward & performance." Senator McAdoo handed scrolls to twelve doughty aviators and Mrs. Jeannette Piccard, first licensed woman balloon pilot, who ascended 57,559 ft. into the stratosphere with her husband, Dr. Jean Piccard...
Last week a "mission" consisting of U. S. Senators McAdoo, McKellar, Gibson and Tydings completed a three-week visit in the islands undertaken by Filipino request. Already a convention had drafted a Constitution for the forthcoming nation, had made preparations for the "Commonwealth" during the ten-year transition from dependence to independence. The four venerable gentlemen were anxious to find out how their 12,000,000 little brown brothers felt as prospective fathers of their country...
...title of Best Dressed Woman in the World among 20 sleek ladies, admitted that Manhattan's Mrs. Harrison Williams, winner of last year's title, had again topped many a private list. Other U. S. winners: Editor Eleanor Medill Patterson of the Washington Herald; Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo. divorced wife of California's Senator McAdoo; Mrs. Frank Jay Gould ; Actresses Tallulah Bankhead & Ina Claire...
...chill morning last week the ranking Democrats of Pennsylvania halted election celebrations to journey to a slag-piled hill near the town of McAdoo. There Governor-elect George H. Earle stood beside a freshly-turned grave. There, too, stood Senator-elect Joseph F. Guffey, Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence, onetime Commonwealth Secretary Richard J. Beamish. Presently 10,000 mourners gathered from nearby towns, began to chant the Requiem responses in a half-dozen tongues as three obscure men were laid to rest. The dead buried, a handful of women surged around Governor-elect Earle to scream in Italian...
Married. Ellen Wilson McAdoo, 19, daughter of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo; and Rafael Lopez de Onate, 38, film, actor; in the home of a friend in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Senator McAdoo, who previously had threatened to cut off his daughter's $1,000-a-month allowance (TIME, Nov. 5), withdrew his objections but did not attend the wedding...