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Earl Carroll received an invitation to act as a supporter of Presidential Candidate Robert A. Taft. Reason: in the campaign of 1912 Carroll was one of the composers of a song, Jump On the Raft With Taft. At that time Carroll went to Washington with a quartet, rose in the House gallery, started to sing his song, was thrown...
This is a typical howdy-do from Uncle Sam Calling, eight-week radio series now planted on 662 U. S. radio stations by the U. S. Census Bureau. Many a censusee does not like the prospect of being asked, and having to answer, a raft of Nosy Parker questions: whether he has a bathroom, a mortgage; where he lived five years ago (for an insight into migrant labor), his race (which most anthropologists say is unanswerable), whether he has been on WPA, CCC, NYA, etc. For the first time in history, the April census will also ask the "amount...
This week Sculptor Browere's busts went museumwards at last. Financier Stephen C. Clark (who has spent a raft of his Singer sewing machine money on art) bought all 20, presented them to the New York State Historical Association. In a special "Hall of Life Masks" at the Association's museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., they will go on display next June, as the first event in Cooperstown's sesquicentennial celebration of its most famed native son, James Fenimore Cooper-one contemporary whose bust Browere never got round to making...
...minutes. He is equally hard-pressed to keep the book's romantic inspirations from seeming merely grotesque when viewed by the literal lens of a camera. A tame ostrich (apocryphally discovered dwelling in a South Sea jungle) taught to haul timber, a stuffed turtle towing a raft-load of gleeful Robinsons will divert children. For older boys there is always Mother Robinson (Edna Best) cavorting around in a pair of buckskin slacks...
...then a lifeboat appeared. It was in charge of Nelson, who shouted at me something about chess, and asked whether we were all right on the raft, as the boat was full...