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Lunatic Expert. Chosen to compile the book were Norris and Ross McWhirter, twin grandsons of Scottish Inventor William McWhirter, who built the first in dicating voltmeter and ammeter. At ten, the twins' favorite reading was Whitaker's Almanack; in the ensuing 26 years, they have added to their fund of statistics at Maryborough and Oxford, and as newsmen in London. In a scant 16 weeks, the McWhirters finished the book, and in the process they found an alibi for Sir Hugh: some game birds, they discovered, fly at a hard-to-hit 72 m.p.h...
...been in correspondence with Facist Campbell to the extent of sending him a copy of the Republican National Committee list when he asked for it. Another potent Republican was revealed to be Mr. Campbell's correspondent. Chairman Dies introduced a letter from paunchy, cigar-smoking Banker Felix McWhirter, treasurer of the Indiana Republican State Committee, who asked Mr. Campbell if any of three persons were of Jewish blood: Alf Landon, William Allen White Mrs. Cordell Hull...
...Could Work Miracles (London Films). When, for his own amusement, one of the god-like creatures who inhabit the firmament of Author H. G. Wells decides to endow a single mortal with the power to work miracles, his choice by pure chance lights upon George McWhirter Fotheringay (Roland Young). No one is more surprised than Mr. Fotheringay at what consequently happens when, in the course of a public house argument about metaphysics, he orders the chandelier to turn upside down. The chandelier does so. When Mr. Fotheringay lacks presence of mind to order it back into place, it falls...
...GORDON MCWHIRTER...