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...Insider was Seymour Weiss, one-time barbershop manager who now runs New Orleans' biggest hotel and the Dock Board, a plump, baldish, suave, natty Jew credited with handling the Long money bags so adroitly that, while he himself is under Federal indictment for income tax evasion, a four-year Treasury search has yet to turn up any charge against the Kingfish, whose fortune last week was variously estimated from...
...communicants in the year ending last March 31-31,822 fewer than the year before. The Presbyterian membership list stood at 1,959,923, a decline of 27,368 communicants. All this was reported last week by the church's Stated Clerk, Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge...
Novelist Hugh Seymour Walpole, arriving on the lie de France in Manhattan on his way to Hollywood to help film Oliver Twist, regaled ship newsmen with an account of how a patent medicine had cured his arthritis: "I went into a London hospital where they pulled out all my teeth and did a lot of other things to me. Nothing seemed to do much good, though. One day my manservant brought me a sinister-looking bottle-it looked like a wine bottle-and on it was written 'Kleano'. I was ready to try anything. I took...
Though Fundamentalists repeatedly talk of a Presbyterian "machine," few speak up in meeting to give it a name and address. Last month the Presbyterian Banner, anti-Fundamentalist weekly, made bold to list some able machine men: Dr. Covert, Dr. McDowell, Stated Clerk Lewis Seymour Mudge, Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, Dr. Charles Rosenbury Erdman, President Joseph Ross Stevenson of Princeton Theological Seminary, Dr. Hugh Thomson Kerr, Dr. Mark Allison Matthews-onetime Moderators all. If these Presbyterians represent a machine, it is because they stick together, see to it that Assemblies run smoothly, unite in a conservative distaste for extreme Fundamentalism. Last...
...having lunch in London's Savoy Grill with a friend when Alexander Korda saw her, offered her a screen test. Watching her shrewdly with his hat over his eyes and a cigar in his mouth, Korda tactfully taught her how to act. She played the part of Jane Seymour, Henry the VIII's third wife. At Barbara Hutton's wedding in Paris she met Wool worth Donahue, rich Hutton cousin. Last summer they were reported engaged. She arrived in the U. S. six months ago for the purpose of marrying him. But Mrs. Donahue Sr. does...