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...George Horace Gallup, punditical pollster of public opinion, last week received at his home in Princeton, N. J. a postcard asking him to choose among the ten leading Presidential candidates. It was from Emil Edward Hurja, the sly, plump ex-newspaperman from Michigan and Alaska who used to dope elections expertly for the Democratic National Committee and now operates his own "political analyst" office in Washington, D. C. for business clients. Mr. Hurja quizzed 149,999 persons besides Dr. Gallup-some in every U. S. county-by postcard and personal interview. Leaders in his poll were Mr. Hurja...
...said that the Countess' physicians had ordered a sea trip for her long-suffering lungs. At the same time she would be able to visit friends that Count Ciano made in Rio in 1925, when he was an Italian consul there. The Countess traveled with tall, blonde, plump Marchesa Aleazzo Guido di Bagno, wife of the man who represents the hotel industry in the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations. The Countess and the Marchesa are considered leaders of Rome's younger smart...
Years ago plump, round-faced Josephine Hancock Logan and her husband set up annual awards for Chicago's famed Art Institute. Grieved by the "modernist" paintings which walked away with the prizes, Mrs. Logan four years ago declared war on her own awards, founded the Society for Sanity in Art, Inc. Last week, at Chicago's Stevens Hotel, the Society came of age with its first national exhibition. Mrs. Logan turned up early, dressed in pink lace, pink gloves, diamond and emerald bracelets, a hat of feathers and flowers. While an eight-piece orchestra played her favorite tunes...
...months it has been running, it has averaged only 33,610. Last week it borrowed another $750,000, bringing to $3,250,000 its borrowings from banks and industry in addition to $6,000,000 subscribed by loyal Californians. It was clear something had to be done. It was. Plump, pompous Chief Director Harris De Haven Connick, who had held his $17,500 job for over a year, was fired...
...best-selling novel, The Yearling, plump Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings was awarded this year's Pulitzer Prize. Other winners: Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (his second), for Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Biographer Carl Van Doren, for Benjamin Franklin; Scripps-Howard Correspondent Thomas L Stokes, for exposing WPA in Kentucky politics...