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When interviewed, Captain John Michelson said, "We are tired. The long, ten-game schedule is enough." Marshall Goldberg, All-American halfback, said, "I must finish a mid-term paper, make up some quizzes, and hit the books...
...National Association of Accredited Publicity Directors named as No. 1 U. S. publicity man glum, poker-faced Charles ("Charley") Michelson, chief publicist for the No. 1 U. S. citizen. Said Franklin Roosevelt's pressagent at the Association's dinner in his honor: "There is an impression . . . that I sit at the President's right hand,* sharing his innermost thoughts, and that no Congressman or Senator can make a speech or take a drink without consulting me. Unfortunately, that picture is not exactly accurate...
...White House press conferences, Pressagent Michelson sits to the rear and the right of the President...
...Charles Michelson in his regular Democratic National Committee publicity hand-out to the press, "Dispelling the Fog," added some to a moot question: "When they are not talking about the hopeless viciousness of the New Deal principles nowadays, they are invoking the old favorite fable of Roosevelt seeking a dictatorship. And then they trot out the old bogey of a third term. . . . Obviously, the President cannot in advance decline a renomination that may never be offered him. Just as obviously, with the world in such a turmoil as it is today outside of this continent, it cannot be forecast whether...
Lemon. Another who in youth tried his hand at business (insurance, banking, cost accounting) but turned back to the laboratory is Physicist Harvey Brace Lemon of the University of Chicago. A onetime student of the late great Albert Abraham Michelson, now a bustling, stout, pink-faced professor of 54, Lemon tracked down the cause of bands in comet tails, designed the spectrophotometer which bears his name, adapted coconut shell charcoal for gas masks during the War. President Hutchins told him off to design a survey course in physical science which would attract rather than repel students majoring in other fields...