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...favorite occupations was spinning tall stories. Once, toward the end of his life, he told a dinner party about his exploits as an airplane pilot, held everyone spellbound. Even his relatives were fooled, forgot that Popsy couldn't even drive...
...bygone days, when a family tree was a ticket of admission to the National and most spectators knew a martingale from a bridoon, harness and saddle horses held the audiences spellbound. In the past decade, since Broadway discovered the Horse Show, jumpers have stolen the spotlight. With blank eyes last week the plain-clothes crowd watched the Adrian Van Sinderens collect ribbon after ribbon in the harness classes. With boredom they watched the saddle horses step around the ring, exhibiting their three gaits, their five gaits, over & over. But when the jumpers came out, the crowd showed some interest. This...
...people of Cleveland had lined the streets five deep to watch the candidate ride by. Nearly 40,000 had squeezed into Cleveland's vast Auditorium. They had cheered their hearts out, cheered even after he started to speak. Then they had sat spellbound while Roosevelt, fatigue written on his face, struck with every weapon at his foes. There for the first time he gave tacit recognition to the Third Term issue, asked for a chance "to stick it out" for "four more years." He promised: "When that term is over there will be another President...
Psychiatrists missed a fat chance years ago, when a neurotic little house painter held customers in Vienna's cheap restaurants spellbound as he harangued against the Jews. Last week psychiatrists at Manhattan's teeming Bellevue Hospital had what looked like a ghost of that earlier chance. Jew-baiting, Hitler-aping Naziphile Joseph ("Joe McNazi") McWilliams (TIME, Sept. 23) leader of the American Destiny Party, was 1) rolled flatter than a pfennig in last week's Congressional primaries in Yorkville (Germanic), 2) convicted of disorderly conduct for stirring up an anti-Semitic fracas, 3) committed by a judge...
...John G. Thompson of Kremlin, Va. is a little (3 ft. 10) but hefty (115 Ib.) Negro. When it comes to fighting sin, he is a mighty midget. Last week, before spellbound revivalist crowds, he demonstrated his pious art at Milwaukee's St. Matthew's Colored Methodist Episcopal Church...