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...General's words but little enlightenment for the country at large as to one of the fiercest, fieriest backstage fights of the New Deal. All Washington knew that a mighty tussle was in progress over the future of NRA. Newshawks got circumstantial glimpses of the contest?a second-hand piece of gossip here, an angry word by way of confirmation there...
Life Begins at 8:40 (words & music by Ira Gershwin, E. Y. Harburg & Harold Arlen; Shuberts, producers). Until recently a look at the program was unnecessary to identify Shubert revues. Their hallmark was stage furnishings which suggested nothing so much as Eighth Avenue second-hand shops. The height of scenic imagination was usually a gauze drop behind which tottered in semidarkness a troupe of half-naked show girls. The decor of Life Begins at 8:40, turned out by the youngest and best man in the business, is no more like that of typical Shubert offerings than chicken salad...
...waterfront barkeep in Texas City, Tex., Jimmy Wedell got no further in school than the ninth grade. A boyhood motorcycle accident blinded his right eye. Mechanically inclined, he ran a small garage, saved enough money to buy a second-hand plane which he learned to fly in one hour. Barnstorming around the Southwest took him to Patterson where he met Harry Palmerston Williams, Louisiana lumber tycoon, husband of one-time Cinemactress Marguerite Clark...
...troubles with the financial and sectarian situation, eventually leading to his decision to resign, are told in a manner which brings out his great ability and the exceedingly trying conditions under which he had to work. The letters from Hill gave in a way which no amount of second-hand writing can, the true character and nature of this man. And yet one does not have the impression that the book is a collection of letters, they are included as supplementary facts in a way which redounds to the credit of the author...
...Record, made Charles Dennis chief editorial writer and manager of foreign news for his evening paper, the Daily News. Lawson and Dennis made the News's foreign service, for a time, the best in the U. S. When Lawson and Dennis started, most foreign news reached Chicago second-hand by way of London. Dennis trained a staff of correspondents, sent them all over the world...