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Last month Bishop Gallagher sailed from Manhattan on the Rex, for Rome, Vatican City and Castel Gandolfo to make the visit "to the threshold" of Mother Church required of all bishops every three to ten years. With him was his friend and close colleague, Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland. Ship newshawks discovered these big-city Bishops, immediately asked Detroit's what he thought of Father Coughlin's calling President Roosevelt a liar (TIME, July 27). Bishop Gallagher, whose countenance, as that of the Archangel Michael, adorns the political priest's Charity Crucifixion Tower near Detroit, replied...
Publisher William Randolph ("Buy American") Hearst sailed for Europe on the Italian liner Rex. With him he took a party of 16, including his son George, his dachshund Helena. Cinemactress Marion Davies. Boomed Publisher Hearst: "Landon will be overwhelmingly elected, and I'll stake my reputation as a prophet...
...went aboard the Rex, Mr. Gerard undertook to give President Roosevelt a parting boost by declaring that he had $20,000 to bet 2-to-1 on Roosevelt's reelection, boasting that he could find no takers (TIME, July 27). If he thought that his offer would be safe because he was at sea, he was mistaken. Robert B. Greene, a Wall Street betting commissioner, in a radiogram to the Rex, took half the Democratic financier's bet for a client. Next a Republican who voted for Roosevelt in 1932, Le Grand Bouton Cannon of Tuxedo Park...
Meet Nero Wolfe (Columbia). If Author Rex Stout had determined not to let the cinema reproduce any of his American Magazine detective stories he could scarcely have invented a better hero than Nero Wolfe. Wolfe is so sedentary that he never ventures outdoors. His only hobby is growing orchids. Beer-guzzling has given him an enormous paunch. Thus deprived of action and sex appeal, Meet Nero Wolfe overcomes its handicaps surprisingly well, thanks to an effective performance by Edward Arnold and to the presence of Lionel Stander as Wolfe's dazed but tireless assistant...
Criticizing Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper for splitting Bureau authority between too many men, the Committee's report lashed out particularly at two top Bureau officials, Director Eugene Vidal and his assistant, Rex Martin. Excerpts...