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...Washington, in response to a newshawk's question, Mrs. Roosevelt declared that as far as she knew her sons were now driving very carefully. ¶ In Cambridge, Mass., Junior Franklin and Sophomore John announced that they had signed safe-driving pledges as part of a campaign sponsored by the Harvard Crimson...
...Buffalo, N. Y. an alert newshawk turned up a willing candidate for euthanasia. She was Anna Becker, 34, a one-time nurse who was badly hurt in an automobile crash two years ago. Her teeth were knocked out. Her gums had failed to heal, she could eat no solid food and because of unhealed internal injuries even liquid food caused searing pain. Her legs swelled and hurt if she stood on them for a few minutes. She had been awarded damages of $6,000, of which she had collected nothing because of an insurance guarantor's bankruptcy...
...cronies, Historian Sullivan has pulled no punches in detailing his shortcomings as President and the national disasters to which they led. In passing, Author Sullivan demolishes a few legends. Boss Boise Penrose, he reveals, did not dictate Harding's nomination from his Philadelphia sickbed. It was a newshawk, not Harry Daugherty, who predicted that the Republican nominee would be chosen by "15 men in a smoke-filled room...
Arriving in New Orleans to open a three-day engagement in The Constant Wife, Ethel Barrymore wheeled on a young woman newshawk, snapped: "I don't give interviews, especially to little whelps who don't know anything...
Attracted by his declaration that the Republican nomination for President is "an honor no American can afford to refuse" (TIME, Sept. 30), the New York Herald Tribune sent a newshawk to listen to Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, publisher of Liberty, True Story, Physical Culture. Trying to look like the vibrant male who had himself photographed in "classical poses" in the 1890's, Publisher Macfadden fingered a little pile of tooth picks on his desk. "I always say," he glowed, "that I'm 67 years old and 25 years young. ... I only eat when I'm hungry : sometimes...