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Twenty-two years ago, already an old man, he returned to Mull to fulfill his dream. Masons and workmen went to work and soon the towers of Duart Castle were standing again. Last week at 98 he was the oldest Highland chieftain, with tasseled sporran and a jeweled skean dhus...
Textbook scribblers of coming generations, gazing back on the second quarter of the 20th Century in frantic search for a Turning Point, may very well seize upon the "Ulysses" decision as its symbol. Here was a judicial opinion which, a few years before, might have caused bonfires to be lit...
Many an oldtime Smith admirer has felt that the Brown Derby was rapidly losing the common touch since his withdrawal from active politics, was growing reactionary and bad-tempered as the New Deal unfolded. Yet even these erstwhile friends had to admit that Al Smith retained his salty gift of...
Marilyn Miller's step-in was the chief acquisition of the couple who shared first prize with Mrs. Waterbury & Mr. Holmsen. At the theatre where Actress Miller is dancing in As Thousands Cheer, doormen and a detective fought off a score of scavengers who tried to invade her dressing...
(8 of 8) pledge. But many a silk-stocking Republican, to whom LaGuardia's radicalism is repugnant and who remembers how the gallant major bedeviled Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, would quietly cast his vote for handsome, upright young Joe McKee. Adding Republican momentum to its original Democratic impetus...