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...Patterson had expected to retire last week on his 50th anniversary at W.N.U. but changed his mind. Although he dislikes Franklin Roosevelt so much that he stayed away from the Democratic convention in 1936 (the first convention he had missed since McKinley was nominated in 1896), this year he wants to stay to cover the Republican and maybe the Democratic conventions. Then in November he will go to California, and retire...
After art study in Munich, he went back to Canton, Ohio, in time to help tootle Townsman William McKinley into the White House and to learn "the rule of never voting for a Presidential candidate who had the slightest chance of election." In 1903 he became editor of his first paper, The Labor World, organ of the Brewery Workers Union. As editor he went to New Orleans for the bitter jurisdictional strike of 1903 that nearly ruined both breweries and workers in that city. His narrative of the strike is a small masterpiece of labor history...
Wandered out to the Jubilee the other night and had the pleasure of hearing one of the best young bands yet formed. Will Bradley's bunch, with Ray Mckinley playing drums, are as well-rounded and perform as smoothly as almost any of the big top bands...
...Mckinley is my mind one of the host drum men in the country. Possessing a technique that rivals Krupa's in its crystal clarity, it seems to me after hearing him not only with Bradley but with the Jimmy Dorsey band that his ideas are more original and more strikingly Illustrated than those Jungle Gene." Plus the fact that McKinley is somebody's gift to a brass section. While other drummers are pounding away at just keeping good steady time, McKinley is backing the brass on every lick they play and thus adding immeasureably to the lift of the hand...
Marriage Denied. By Cinemactress Arline Judge, 28, and Cafe Socialite James McKinley Bryant, 31, who announced his marriage to her "somewhere in Kentucky" after the Derby. Protested Mr. Bryant later: "How could I marry her when I'm still married to Mickey Flynn?" Sighed Miss Judge: "It's all so ridiculous." Divorced. Kent Cooper, general manager of Associated Press; by Marian Rothwell Cooper; after 20 years of marriage; in Miami...