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...Chapel Hill he was a rugged little St. George, who led pious forays against the roughnecks whose doxies plied their trade in Chapel Hill graveyard. He was nonetheless twice elected president of his class. In 1917, after taking an M.A. at Columbia, Frank Graham became one of the runtiest marines on record...
...World War I, Graham was one of the runtiest of U.S. marines. Back in North Carolina, he defended teachers of evolution against Fundamentalists in the '20s, labor's right to strike during the textile rows of the '30s and he has even said a good word for the right of others to talk about Negro social equality. His 1941 mediator's vote against the closed shop in the captive coal mines may have cost him some old labor friends, but Carolina conservatives are far from sure that Frank Graham is a fellow conservative. He is generally...
...runtiest stunt cinema has ever attempted, Producer Jed Buell (Harlem on the Prairie, TIME, Dec. 13) was last week collecting in Hollywood 200 midgets. Their assignment: an all-midget, musical Western, The Terror of Tiny Town. Quickest to follow Producer Buell's knee-high lead was Dr. Eugene Frenke, producer husband of Actress Anna Sten. His pint-sized project: Half-Buck Rides Again...
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