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...Gastonia strike Prisoner Beal had oddly little to say last week. One of his prosecutors then was Clyde Roark Hoey, who as Governor of North Carolina now has the power to pardon Fred Beal. Lolling in the witness chair, Witness Beal declared that Party leaders deliberately made the trial a vehicle for Communist propaganda, inflaming the southern jurors and dooming the defendants. Afterward, said he, Communists in Manhattan worked their false passport racket, shipped him and his fellows off "to show the Russians by our coming that there was a bad situation in America...
Last week the 20,000 polo enthusiasts sitting in Meadow Brook's turquoise-blue stands realized-a little sadly-that even this, Britain's best-of-all teams since the War (Bob Skene, Aidan Roark, Gerald Balding, Eric Tyrrell-Martin) was no match for the U. S. four: Mike Phipps, Tommy Hitchcock, Stewart Iglehart, Winston Guest. Fortnight ago, in the first of the two-out-of-three-game series, they were trounced 11-to-7. Last week the drubbing was even worse. The U. S. side won, 9-to-4, retained the Cup that has not crossed...
Divorced, Aidan Roark, 36, Irish-born international poloist (rating: 8 goals), Twentieth Century-Fox scenario executive; by Esther Foss Moore Roark, 32, daughter of Massachusetts' onetime Governor Eugene Noble Foss; in Los Angeles. Grounds: rudeness. Mrs. Roark testified that once, driving with her from Carmel to Los Angeles in wind & rain, he insisted on keeping the car's top down...
...Upped Long Island's Mike Phipps from eight to nine. Only other nine-goaler: Great Britain's Captain C.T. I. ("Pat") Roark...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt entrained in Washington to attend the celebration of Virginia Dare's 350th birthday. At Roanoke he and North Carolina's Governor Clyde Roark Hoey enjoyed the sight of a New Deal project, a new Fort Raleigh, erected by WPA. Then the President climbed upon a flag-bedecked stage and launched on one of his favorite themes, a modern political parable to a historical incident which he used as a broadsword to slash his political enemies...