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...convention candidates in California's primaries. Nominally pledged to Republican State Chairman Earl Warren, the delegation was well understood to be "uninstructed." In opposition to it, William Randolph Hearst put forward a delegation pledged to Alf M. Landon. Few days later he was joined by lightweight Governor Frank Merriam, who had been ignored in the Hoover slate. Governor Landon, sticking steadfastly to his pose that the nomination must seek him, refused to approve or repudiate the Hearst-Merriam ticket (TIME, April...
...cinema. She is "unspoiled." This does not prevent her from being fresh. When, preparatory to meeting H. G. Wells, she was informed that he was the most important man in the universe, she chirped: "Oh no, he's not! God is the most important and Governor Merriam's second." In Palm Springs she showed General Pershing her autograph book and asked him whether he knew the Hollywood notables whose names were in it. On learning that he knew none of them, she lost interest in him, disrespectfully inquired later how he came to be a general. She likes...
FROM experience, Dr. Dexter Merriam Keezer, president of Reed College (Portland, Ore.) has learned that heavy academic robes are stifling. Amherst A. B., Cornell M. A., Brookings Institute Ph. D., Dr. Keezer taught variously and brilliantly at Dartmouth, Cornell, and the Universities of California and North Carolina, but he was a fish that leapt occasionally from the dry bank into the stream to get into the swim of things again. He worked on the Denver Times and edited the Baltimore Sun, Reed College found him a year ago working on the NRA Consumers' Advisory Board...
...John Campbell Merriam, 66, geologist, paleontologist, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; the American Institute's gold medal; for discoveries in paleontology, promotion of research, recognition of the place of science in human affairs. Dr. Merriam's broad surveys of fossils and artifacts convince him that man in the U. S. is at least 100,000 years old. Dr. William Francis Giauque, 40, of the University of California, holder of the U. S. record for low temperature (.16° C. above Absolute Zero), discoverer of two variant forms of oxygen weighing 17 and 18 atomic units instead...
When the picture opened last week, Governor Frank Finley Merriam of California proclaimed Gold Week, and Sacramento held a warm-up for its 1939 Hometown Jubilee. There was a Governor's "Sutter's Gold Ball." Carl Laemmle and entourage arrived in five private cars. Local merchants displayed themselves in 1849 costumes and sideburns...