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...white horse stood. On the horse was Miss Elane Summers, 19, a Rockford (Ill.) College sophomore, in a Revolutionary getup which was supposed to make her resemble Paul Revere (see cut,p.11). Calling herself Pauline Revere, Miss Summers admonished the U. S.: "MOBILIZE FOR PEACE-DEFEAT CONSCRIPTION." Said alliterative Papa Summers (who in 1938 denounced Communists for luring his son Thane to death in Loyalist Spain): ". . . My pink daughter ... [on] a white horse ... a pretty puppet is paraded to propagandize against American preparedness . . . [by] Stalin's subtle stooges...
Scripps-Howard's Ray Lamb reported that Local 16,975 of United Sea Food Workers Union (a Federal union) had rehired as its business agent blubber-mouthed, notorious Joseph ("Socks") Lanza. Known as Sea Food Papa, the Tsar of the Fulton Fish Market, and other names, Socks Lanza is no rose under any of them...
...Marion Jordan. By radio alias they are Fibber McGee and Molly of 79 Wistful Vista. This week they celebrate Fibber & Co.'s fifth season on the air for Johnson's Glo-Coat floor wax.* Last week they made their debut in the dramatic bigtime, playing Mama Loves Papa (a Charles Ruggles-Mary Boland movie story) on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre. They let the characterization pass, wrung the gags unmercifully, but no one minded. A year ago Fibber & Co. were metaphorically down among the acrobats in popularity. This season they were booked into a select spot...
...like The Nation and The New Republic, lectured, presided over round-table discussions, was chairman of a Southern committee to study lynching. Long an admirer of Nebraska's Senator George Norris, Milton plugged for the Tennessee Valley Authority when it was no more than a Utopian gleam in Papa Norris...
...once punched Producer George White in the eye; he for the third time (wife No. 1, Florence Courtney; No. 2, Norma Talmadge); in Manhattan. Said Mama Gourley, 33: "I have no objections to early marriages. I was married at 16 myself. I've been divorced seven years." Said Papa Gourley, Los Angeles police official, by wire: "POSITIVELY FORBID YOU TO MARRY ANYONE WITHOUT MY CONSENT...