Word: preston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dailies, is "Washington Daybook," launched eight years ago under General Manager Kent Cooper's dictum that it should not be ''spontaneous news, but clean anecdote, humor and history." Fourteen months ago AP's feature chief, Hearst-trained William T. McCleery, assigned Preston Grover to apply his salty Utah touch to this Capitol comment. Not gossipy but increasingly spicy, Preston Grovers column attempts humor, shuns scandal, specializes in harmless speculation...
...Ochs, early suggested that the pregnant logotype be omitted on AP feature stories. Since last May AP has circularized its members saying: "NO LOGOTYPE PLEASE! Editors: In the interests of providing a livelier Washington column than would be possible under strict adherence to the rules of Associated Press reporting, Preston Grover is being given a latitude of expression which makes it mandatory that the AP logotype be omitted from his copy...
...October meeting of AP's solemn board Publisher Knox will learn whether he can vent his personal ire without challenge from AP. That he cannot was indicated last week when AP, clucking proudly, asserted in trade paper advertisements that Preston Grover's daily stint is ''A credit to American journalism . . . logotype or no logotype...
...Mike Whalen, an Irish contractor who never got very far in the world, but who named his son Grover because the lad was born June 2, 1886, the day that one of New York State's greatest Democratic politicians, Grover Cleveland, was married to Frances Folsom (now Mrs. Preston) in the White House. Grover got his start in politics when he was 30 by working for the election of John F. ("Red Mike") Hylan, Tammany's candidate to succeed the previous Fusion mayor, John Purroy Mitchell. Soon Whalen blossomed out as commissioner of plant & structures and holder...
...raging sirocco does not discourage Miss Francis from exhibiting her usual sweeping evening gowns and Grecian neckline. Typical shot: Errol Flynn athletically clearing some dunes of a large number of hostile Bedouins. You Can't Beat Love (RKO). Only effective method of waking up Lawyer Jimmy Hughes (Preston Foster) in the morning is for his browbeaten butler Jasper (Herbert Mundin) loudly to dare him to get out of bed. Once up, he joins a gang of ditchdiggers on a dare, swings pick & shovel in white tie and tails with Jasper in anguished attendance (see cut). He is dared...