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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another entry from Thomas Beck's stable meanwhile made news of a different color. To its staff of European correspondents Collier's added a cartoonist: brilliant, New Zealand-born David Low, political caricaturist for the London Evening Standard. Low will send Collier's a weekly drawing from London via radio...
...might regard it as an ill omen. This month the Admiral starts his third trip to the Antarctic, partly backed by U. S. Treasury funds, to clinch the claims of the U. S. to some 450,000 ice-covered square miles. Last week enough mishaps befell his huge new "snow cruiser" to convince him that everything was going to be all right...
...evening last fortnight blonde Hedda Hopper, onetime actress, now a Hollywood gossip columnist for the Los Angeles Times, tapped out these lines on her typewriter and thereby set a new record for keyhole journalism. No secret was Hedda Hopper's news about the President's eldest son: Walter Winchell had hinted at it months ago, rumors had drifted about Hollywood and Washington ever since James Roosevelt became Vice President of Samuel Goldwyn, Inc., leaving his wife Betsy (daughter of the late, great Surgeon Harvey Gushing) in the East...
More than that he did not have to say. Hedda Hopper shook his hand understandingly, hopped in her car, drove straight to the office of the Los Angeles Times. There she wrote a new lead, quoting James Roosevelt's words. The front page was replated, pushing aside news of the war in Europe. At four in the morning on a quiet Sunday last week Hedda Hopper's story was on the street. A characteristic California story, it ranked as the Pacific Coast's newsbeat of the year...
...injection of high-spending cultural barbarians among their own withering shirt fronts. Last week, while the starchier board members still creaked and grumbled, the Los Angeles Philharmonic announced: 1) a move from Los Angeles' solemn, downtown Philharmonic Auditorium to Hollywood's garish Pantages Cinema Theatre, 2) three new conductors: famed German exile Bruno Walter, jovial Russo-Britisher Albert Coates, glamorous platinum blond Leopold Stokowski...