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Last week the following were news: To succeed the late George Fisher Baker (TIME, June 7), the directors of Manhattan's rock-ribbed ($674,142,930) First National Bank elected as their new chairman stalwart, sloe-eyed Jackson...
...Sloe-eyed, soft-spoken Generalissimo Francisco Franco of the White Armies, realizing the difficulty of moving on Madrid through the Guadarrama Mountains of the North, transferred his headquarters within easier distance of the main line from Toledo to Madrid. Government troops, disorganized and poorly led, made brave counter-attacks that got nowhere, abandoned well-constructed trenches for villages impossible to hold, were shot down in their tracks while retreating, and occasionally deserted in groups...
...short time ago TIME [June 29] had a full-page ad of sloe gin. At 84 years of age I thought something slow would about fit me, so I bought a bottle. Naturally I took a drink. It tasted so good, I took another. It was so fine, I called in a friend and we had a couple more. Pretty soon it began to show its speed...
Married. Myrna Loy, 31, sloe-eyed, Montana-born cinemactress (The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld); and Arthur Hornblow Jr., 43, scenarist, associate producer for Paramount; at Ensenada, Lower California, Mexico...
...Plattsburg, Mo. Comedian Cantor excitedly hopped to a long distance telephone, called Lloyd Lewis from class, congratulated him, summoned him to Manhattan. When Winner Lewis arrived last week to collect his scholarship, he delighted Comedian Cantor by making first-rate human interest copy. Big-eared, slick-haired, sloe-eyed, and looking not un like his benefactor, Lloyd told how he had written his essay between chores on his father's 100-acre farm, how his Plattsburg teachers had dismissed it as "only fair," how at first he did not believe his good fortune until Eddie Cantor confirmed the news...