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...Barnum and Tex Rickard would have stared in envy. They had staged many a flamboyant spectacle during Madison Square Garden's 70-year history. But last week, in his red-carpeted, walnut-paneled president's office, John Reed Kilpatrick, 58, beamed happily over the biggest thing yet to come the Garden...
Killed in Action. Army Air Forces Captain Jefferson Davis Dickson, 47, one-time "Tex Rickard of Europe" who won fame and fortune when he built big, bumbling Primo Camera into an international attraction; in an air battle over France last July (not announced until last week...
Already several thousand subscriptions have poured in from a really remarkable group of Sweden's leaders-from Minister of Finance Ernst Wigforss and former Foreign Minister Rickard Sandler; from industrialists Sigfrid Edström and Torsten Hèrnod; from Managing Director Jacob Wallenberg of Stockholm's Enskilda Bank; and from such other well-known figures as the Countess Ebba Bonde, economist Gunnar Myrdal, and film director Victor Sjöström, who launched Greta Garbo...
...Nichols, CambridgeDavid Barnes Joan Smith, Cambridge SchoolDonald Beardsley Connie Clark, WestportLucian R. Blackmer Jane Armistead, ErskineMalcolm Broadrick Jane Mansfield, NewtonGordon M. Browne, Jr. Edith Carlton, RadcliffeForrest Buckingham Ruth Stevens, BelmontGeorge Burditt Lue Lahiff, Western Springs, III.Arthur V. Campbell Dorothy Lewis, New York, N. Y.Hobart A. Capen Mary Morgan, Miss Rickard'sSamuel B. Carr Mary McCagg, BeaverElliott Carroll Betty Stevenson, GarlandLeon A. Danco, Jr. Ann LeFevre, Dean AcademyAlbert N. Danoff Sybol Fineberg, LasellE. Thayer Drake, III Mary Machezie, SmithJoseph Dunn Regina MacPherson, Westfield CollegeParker Foss Joan Pratt, Concord AcademyGeorge Frankforter Mary Richter, RadcliffeJohn W. Frenning Elaine Letts, BelmontThomas Green Lucy Sampson...
...successfully cultivated the notion that his out-rourings represent art of a very high order. A great wind-sawer at rehearsals, Director Oboler has worked with such lights as Nazimova, Bette Davis, considers himself a sort of Radio Reinhardt. Betimes he has ghostwritten a biography of the late Tex Rickard, recently adapted Escape for the screen, is now under commitment to write the screen play for The Flying Yorkshireman. When he discusses radio, he is fond of such pronunciamentos as: "The very first premise for writing good radio should be actually having something to say that hasn't been...