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Married. Congressman John Grain Kunkel, 49, shy darling of Dauphin County, Pa. Republican women, and brave host to some 800 of them at an annual squealy luncheon (TIME, May 19); and Katherine Smoot Kunkel, fortyish, widow of a Kunkel cousin; he for the first time, she for the second; in Arlington...
Hollywood marked the beginning of a long, curious period of Hammerstein failure. He worked on a dozen musicals between 1930 and 1942, but few were hits. He suffered the lean years stoically. In 1940 he bought, as a sort of refuge, a farm near Doylestown, Pa. People said that Oscar Hammerstein was through; he claims that he was kept going by a "certain inner conceit...
...Erie, Pa...
...dusters, set out on a 500-mile drive through New England in a revival of the Glidden Tour (an annual road race for horseless carriages which Financier Charles Glidden established in 1905 to popularize automobiling). The driver most in need of a horse: William E. Swigart Jr. of Huntingdon, Pa., whose 1908 Ford blew a piston head, broke a timing gear, contracted radiator leaks and collapse of the spark coil, and had seven flat tires before he got to the Hartford starting line...
Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland also had his day of triumph. At the Reading (Pa.) Fair, his 725-lb. boar was champion in the open Hampshire class...