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Last November Representative Martin Dies's Congressional Committee on Un-Americanism threatened to summon Louise Hovick (strip-name: Gypsy Rose Lee) to testify about a Hollywood party to raise money for Spanish Loyalists. Interviewed in Manhattan last week, Miss Hovick suggested that she and Representative Dies form a vaudeville team. Said she: "With my act and his publicity we could bring back vaudeville...
...importance in Dr. Goebbels' mind of the "educative campaign" he was starting last week caused him to summon 2,000 of his picked Nazi stooge-orators to meet him in the Kroll Opera House...
Lefty Wilfred Lefebvre is the likely Holy Cross pitcher. Until B. C. beat him 3 to 0 last Monday, the Purple hurling ace was undefeated in seven encounters. Art Kenney, who tripped the Varsity a week ago and let Yale down Wednesday, is another Crusader whom Jack Barry may summon to the mound...
...press on a guessing game. Best guess as to why Gracie Hall Roosevelt-a onetime Comptroller of Detroit, who now spends most of his time in New York-had given the invitation was that the President considered it more tactful to invite Mr. Ford through an emissary than to summon him directly. Having deduced this much-despite rumors that Hall Roosevelt had given the invitation on his own account, thus putting his brother-in-law in the position of being forced to second it-the nation's press spent the rest of the week speculating on what, since...
...this is being written it seems probable the Reorganization Bill will be on its way to the White House for signature-before this column is published. . . . We may look for a mournful recital of the supineness and rubber-stampedness of a cowering Congress that could not summon enough courage to stand out against an overbearing Chief Executive." Day that the above premature excerpt from his weekly handout. Dispelling the Fog, was scheduled to be released to the press last week, the Democratic National Committee's publicity director Charles ("The Mike") Michelson sent out a hasty request to editors that...