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Today Dan Golenpaul absorbs at least 20% of the $10,000 weekly fee that Heinz pays for the show. Tall, curly-haired, arrogant, he has a penchant for big cigars, for calling himself "a stormy petrel." Of his undeniably-successful Information Please he moans: "I should have got this ten years ago. I was robbed...
John Andrew Rice is a maverick among U.S. educators. By his own account, only one man ever understood him-old Philosopher John Dewey. A stormy petrel wherever he taught, Dr. Rice quarreled with the University of Nebraska, was kicked out of Rollins College (TIME, June 19, 1933), two years ago abruptly severed relations with his own dream college, North Carolina's Black Mountain. Now the professor is back in the news with a Harper prize book, I Came Out of the 18th Century ($3). His brooding, mordant autobiography reveals him as a brilliant critic of teaching and an acid...
Died. Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, 58, hawk-nosed, "gimlet-eyed" stormy petrel of the U. S. Marine Corps; of an abdominal ailment; in Philadelphia. Oft-decorated, multi-nicknamed General Butler, at 37 the youngest Marine officer ever to win the rank of brigadier general, fought in 14 battles and skirmishes, earned a legendary reputation for reckless bravery. His barrackroom language got him into more trouble than did his battlefield impetuosity. In 1930 he was almost court-martialed for calling Premier Mussolini a "hit-and-run driver." Retired, General Butler lectured for peace, published a book entitled...
...tossed a bombshell into the 1936 election campaign with the announcement that KFI and KECA would not carry President Roosevelt's fireside chats during the campaign unless the stations were paid for the time. Well might Manager Holliway vary from the norm. His boss is the stormy petrel of California broadcasting: Earle Charles Anthony, automobile dealer with a State-wide chain of Packard agencies, who took up radio in the early days, believing it might provide communication between his agencies. Instead of organizing a network like fellow Automobile-Dealer Don Lee (Cadillac, LaSalle, Oldsmobile), husky, bushy-browed Broadcaster Anthony...
Quoted at length in yesterday's American, Merwin K. Hart '40, stormy petrel of the Young Conservatives ever since its founding last fall, last night came to the conclusion that "I was framed." According to the officers of the Conservatives, the American told Hart over the telephone at 12.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon that they had "no" signatures to the petition that the American was sponsoring in opposition to the appointment of Granville Hicks as an American History Fellow...