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...parliamentarian under Speaker Longworth. In Washington Senator Fess lives alone at the exclusive Carlton. He spends as much of his time as possible on his seven acres at Yellow Springs, where, emulating Henry Clay, he practices his speeches pacing a flagstone walk and addressing the birds. He is no sportsman. "My golf stick," says he. "is a hoe." Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a dependable party wheelhorse, inoffensive, pleasant, industrious (his critics call him "fussbudgety"), of average intelligence and below-average imagination. As long as the U. S. has partisan government, his type will be needed and appreciated...
...control. WILLIAM MITCHELL Middleburg, Va. Grateful Georgian Sirs: I wish to express my appreciation for your stand against the sportswriters as to the come back of Bobby Jones [TIME, April 2]. As all loyal Georgians, I am an ardent admirer of his superb quality as a golfer and a sportsman. May your broad-minded foresight in sports and other departments always prevail. PAUL McKENNEY JR. Columbus, Ga. Thrilled Engineer Sirs: Allow me to congratulate TIME on its marvelous treatment of the life, personality, and activities of Arturo Toscanini in your article "Birthday of a Conductor" under Music, TIME, April...
...explain the Smith retirement, newspapers found two likely ones. Of late. Editor Smith, always proud of his Democratic regularity, has been growing more friendly toward the Roosevelt Administration. He sympathized with the President in the uproar over airmail contracts. Publisher Tichenor. in addition to New Outlook, owns Spur, Sportsman Pilot. Port and Aero Digest. March number of Aero Digest contains a sizzling column by Publisher Tichenor in his ''Air-Hot and Otherwise'' department which flays the Administration's cancellation of contracts. The April issue of New Outlook will have a similar article. Another difference...
...more, no less. The companies are Texas Sulphur, which accounts for two-thirds of the production, and Freeport Texas, the principal deposits of which are at present not in Texas but in Louisiana. Last week Freeport Texas completed a four-year internal reorganization. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, sportsman son of the late Payne Whitney, was made Freeport's board chairman. Jock Whitney graduated from Yale in 1926 and by the time he finally went to work as a buzzer boy in Lee, Higginson & Co. in Manhattan he was already a director of Great Northern Paper. While answering the buzzer...
...tale will be disclosed with mute clarity when a skeleton in a burlap bag is washed ashore on the coast of Connecticut. But when the grim remains, whitened by wind and rain, are laid gently to rest, they will have the sympathy and respect of every true sportsman. Daniel has been a noble beast, and, like all good dogs...