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...President called for daylight saving as a national defense measure. A mighty man is Franklin Roosevelt, with many powers unknown to Joshua, but last week he bumped spang up against something Joshua didn't have to contend with: the psyche...
...newcomer is Gillette to the sportscasting field. President J. P. Spang Jr. is ardent about athletics, shoots golf in the low 80s himself. His company broadcast the Baer-Braddock fight in 1935, has since sponsored radio accounts of a couple of world series as well as horse races and football games. Probable price paid for the Jacobs nod: $200,000, some $50,000 more than the Adam contract called...
Frau Helene Scheu-Riesz (pronounced Shoy-Reese) began her literary career in Vienna, age 18, with translations of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She also wrote a novel, Der Revolutionär, which came out spang during the 1918 revolution, had quite a succès d'estime. The Scheu-Rieszes have long mixed politics and publishing. Her husband, who died before the Anschluss, published some 200 children's books from different languages in an effort to broaden the viewpoint of Viennese primary school children, who were using "dreadfully nationalistic" primers. In off hours Frau Scheu-Riesz organized a kind...
...Conant, James F. Conway, T. Jefferson Coolidge, Donald C. Cottrell, Paul G. Courtney; Henry DeFord, Jr., Eben Henry McB. Parker, William A. Parker, Henry Parkman. Jr., Ronald L. Redmond, Edward Reynolds, Junius A. Richards, John Rock, H. W. Dwight Rudd, Philip H. Sherwood, David R. Sigourney, Joseph P. Spang, Jr., Henry S. Strurgis, Ernest G. Swigert, William S. Draper, Roger C. Fenn, John S. Fleek, Robert T. Gannett, Joseph Garland, James M. Graham, Reginald Gray, S. Eliot Guild, R. Cushing Hamlen, Huntington R. Hardwick, Bartlett Harwood, Lawrence Hemenway, Edwin H. Heminway, Christian A. Herter, Leverett F. Hooper, John K. Howard...
Main Street Lawyer (Republic) has nothing to do with Author Bellamy Partridge's best-selling Country Lawyer (recently bought for pictures by Paramount). It is a warning to slick city gangsters not to stray farther afield than the suburbs. If they do, they may run spang into tall, grim-mouthed Edward Ellis, as happens when Gangster Marco (Harold Huber) goes a-rusticating. But Edward Ellis, who helped make memorable the cheaply made quickie, A Man To Remember, does not turn the trick with this thin-spun tale of village politics, catty gossip, calf love...