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Cases still pending last week were in Denver, Jersey City, N. J. and Washington where the Post, copying a biennial custom of righteous Washington Star, had begun a "crusade." Owlish District Attorney Leo A. Rover bought one of the offending magazines in a drugstore, read it on his way home. Whatever his first reactions may have been, the effect of finding his young daughter reading the same magazine was galvanic. He ordered the arrest of 150 newsdealers, six of whom were to be tried this week. In partial defense against the obscenity charge Publisher George T. Delacorte Jr. could point...
...personages who were to attend the christening, four were most acutely concerned: quiet, young Commander Rosendahl, about to receive the Akron as his command, a veteran of 3,333 hr. dirigible flight; Dr. Arnstein, gentle-mannered, owlish, designer of the ship, who deprecated the celebration as "boasting before the baby actually walks"; hardbitten Admiral Moffett who won the $8,000,000 authorization for the Akron and her sister (ZRS-5) in the face of terrific opposition aroused by the Shenandoah disaster; and Goodyear-Zeppelin's President Paul Weeks Litchfield...
...this state of affairs the Italian delegates, the Japanese delegates, the Belgian delegates looked very owlish and did nothing whatever. The French, sure of their own position, did nothing either, but took pains to be exceedingly polite. Realizing that France and Germany must come to direct terms sooner or later, the French and German delegations stayed at the same hotel, the Ritz. Junior attachés breakfasted together publicly. Swart Premier Laval and stoop-shouldered Brer Briand were always willing to see reporters. On the crucial morning of the conference Brer Briand posed amiably for reporters even though...
...smoking room of the S.S. President Hayes, steaming westward across the warm Pacific last week a stocky, owlish man with horn-rimmed spectacles regaled his fellow male passengers with the sort of stories told in smoking-rooms. When one of the others would tell a "good one" which the stocky man by chance did not already know, the stocky man promptly filed it in his inexhaustible mental library. His interest was professional, not queasy, for he was Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett, founder and publisher of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. He and his wife .Annette were bound...
Suggestion for "The Trial of Vivienne Ware," which was promptly adopted for other Hearstpapers, came from the American's busy, owlish Editor Edmond D. ("Cobbie") Coblentz, longtime publisher of the San Francisco Examiner. He plucked the idea from a small news item from Copenhagen telling of the broadcast of a murder trial there. Writer Kenneth Ellis of the American's radio-news staff wrote the scenario, packed into it the stuff of which city editors' dreams are made: the knife thrown at Dancer Dolores Divine as she walks to the witness chair; the disappearance of the "mystery...