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When Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge ousted his politically hostile State Highway Commission by declaring martial law and setting National Guardsmen with machine guns over highway funds (TIME, July 3, 1933), there were few more interested observers than a young politician named Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston across the Savannah River in South Carolina. No sooner had he entered his State's Legislature in 1929 than Representative Johnston began charging the head of South Carolina's State Highway Commission, potent Ben Mack Sawyer, with political skulduggery. Next year he ran for Governor with the slogan "Out with Tsar...
Said Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times of the same piece: "The music is labored and the thematic material very sparse. ... It sometimes repeats, but seldom progresses...
From New York, the Club travels to the Philadelphia Forum to take part in a lecture concert with Olin Downes, duplicating a similar performance given in Brooklyn last year. Downes, who is the music critic for the New York Times, will lecture on the history and development of Choral Music while the Glee Club illustrates by rendering chosen selections...
...Glee Club is judged to be one of the finest in the country and gives a series of concerts every year which includes one with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and another, under the supervision of Olin Downs, in Philadelphia. Several of the better known preparatory schools and Wellesley and Vassar are also included on the regular schedule...
...Vamarie, owned and sailed by Caviar Tycoon Vadim Makaroff. Next biggest was Mistress, whose owner and skipper, George Emlen Roosevelt, is Commodore of the Cruising Club of America which sponsored the race, director in 20 companies, veteran of eleven blue-water races. Roderick Stephens Jr., who with his brother Olin won the last transatlantic race (1931) in Dorade, was sailing Philip Le Boutilliers new boat, Stormy Weather, designed on the same speedy lines as Dorade. Oldest boat in the race, Vagabond, was manned by Yale undergraduates. In Hamrah, Robert Ames, Boston socialite, was taking his two sons Harry and Richard...