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Bertie v. Dante. Like William Randolph Hearst, the Tribune's Robert Rutherford McCormick is more easily caricatured than portrayed. The sharpest shaft ever aimed at him-that he possessed "the greatest mind of the 14th Century" - did Bertie, as well as Dante, a disservice.* So have the oversimplified pictures of McCormick as a feudal lord of the manor, aping the English aristocrats he professes to detest; as a fascist menace; as "Col. McCosmic," the frustrated military strategist; as a crackpot Midas...
...Princeton's president, served part of one term as governor of New Jersey. Twelve months before he went to Trenton, probably not one U.S. voter in ten knew much more about him than that he had kicked up some kind of a row on the Princeton campus. William Randolph Hearst scorned him as "the Professor . . . perched on his little hillock of expediency ... a perfect jackrabbit of politics . . . ears erect and nostrils distended . . . ready to run and double in any direction...
From a loudspeaker outside the Brass Rail Theater Bar, a smoky, crowded joint on Chicago's brassy Randolph Street, came hard, driving music. One old connoisseur who heard it stopped in his tracks and said, "My God. it's Bix." But the sign in the window said Jimmy MacPartland. It was Jimmy playing the golden cornet that Jazz Immortal Bix Beiderbecke had given him years...
Freshman batters had a big day at Soldiers Field yesterday as they pounded out a 22 to 6 win over the U.S.S. Randolph in a seven-inning contest. Johnny Goldsmith led the hitting with a single, a double and a triple in three trips to the plate...
...Randolph Churchill, lecturing son of Winston, was still lecturing in the U.S. after six months, but backed out of a Manhattan radio date this week. Said Randolph: when he agreed to criticize Communist Earl Browder's new book (War or Peace with Russia?) on the air, he hadn't realized "that an American Communist would also be taking part. ... I have long made it a rule to have no association whatever with American, Canadian, or British Communists." The American Communist who would take part: expelled Comrade Browder...