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...satire of rotund Art Young is gentler, his humor more pointed, and his following is a generation older and more devoted than Grosz's, but he too was tried for sedition during the War when the editors of the Masses (Art Young, John Reed, Floyd Dell, Max Eastman) went on trial for "obstructing the draft." Art Young fell asleep at the trial, did a self-caricature entitled Art Young on Trial for His Life which was later bid for by the prosecuting attorney. Born in Monroe, Wis. 70 years ago, Satirist Art Young has been sensitive to but never...
...carrier to step through the gap in the opposing line. Under Chick Meehan at Syracuse, Coach Waldorf learned to make players play well because they like it. He rarely bothers with scrimmages, sees to it that practice never interferes with study and has entirely eliminated locker-room oratory. Earnest, rotund, prematurely grey, he extends his good nature not only to his players but to his four assistants, with whom he discusses the week's plans for five hours every Sunday night, and to whom he assigns most of the credit for Northwestern's prowess...
...from Shreveport to New Orleans, posted $5,000 reward for the murderers. While rumors crackled the Federal Government might take a hand because of interference with the mails, the National Mediation Board proclaimed its hands tied because of President Couch's refusal to arbitrate. Hopefully Louisiana's rotund Governor Leche called a peace conference for this week...
...Washington last week, rotund Ira N. Gabrielson, who was appointed chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey last year by Mr. Chrysler's good friend Franklin Roosevelt, commented: "All citizens are equal under the Law and our men are instructed to arrest all law violators regardless of their identity...
Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Soviet spokesman at Montreux, was 60 years old last week. Because in Bolshevik theory a Foreign Commissar is a most unimportant character, not to be compared with such weighty men as Defense Commissar Voroshilov or Commissar of Transportation Andreyev, photographs of rotund Commissar Litvinoff are practically non-existent in Russia. Millions of good Communists do not even know of his existence. As a birthday present Joseph Stalin decided last week that his Foreign Commissar had been neglected long enough. To him the Red dictator sent the rosette of the Order of Lenin, highest Soviet decoration...