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...test the reported willingness of bankers & brokers to back Alf M. Landon at 5-to-8 odds, the pro-Roosevelt New York Daily News sent a newshawk to Wall Street with $1,600 in cash. Unable to find anyone to bet $1,000 on the Republican nominee, the newshawk reversed his position, promptly discovered a Roosevelt supporter who bet $1,400 against his $1,000 that the President would...
Last month in Copenhagen, a newshawk cornered Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark and Iceland, just before that gracious lady set sail for the U. S. to stump for Franklin D. Roosevelt's reelection. Did she not think, he asked, that it would be disagreeable for any husband to be of lower rank than his wife? "I can see no problems," countered William Jennings Bryan's 50-year-old daughter. "The food tastes equally good at both ends of the table...
While President Roosevelt was last week telling newshawks in his air-cooled White House office how he proposed to inspect the drought area next month, a pert newshawk asked if by any chance he would make a few political speeches on that trip. A deep frown gullied the President's face. Drought, he snapped, was much too serious to mix with politics...
Into the Manhattan offices of Review of Reviews last month stepped a short, dark-haired youngish man who introduced himself to Associate Editor David Page as Pledge Brown, a onetime newshawk on the Ketchikan (Alaska) Chronicle. Producing a letter from Editor Henry Goddard Leach of the Forum thanking him for an article on the New Deal's Matanuska Valley colony in Alaska (TIME, July 1, 1935 et ante), Pledge Brown asked if he might not do a similar piece from a new angle for Review of Reviews. Editor Page asked when he could finish it. Pledge Brown answered that...
Closing her hit play, Victoria Regina, in Manhattan, Actress Helen Hayes journeyed to Chicago with her husband, Playwright Charles MacArthur (Front Page), to defend an alienation-of-affections suit brought by his first wife. In 1920 MacArthur, then a flighty Chicago newshawk, married a fellow-reporter named Carol Frink. She divorced him in 1926. In 1928 he married Actress Hayes. Iri 1932 two cinema magazines published confessional interviews with Cinemactress Hayes clearly intimating that MacArthur had ditched Miss Frink for her. Miss Frink then sued...