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...Appointed round-faced, bespectacled ex-Congressman Guy Swope,* Pennsylvania's Democrat who had the backing of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, to the Governorship of troubled, depressed, strategic Puerto Rico...
...Building D of the Observatory this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Speakers will include Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory, and Dr. F. L. Whipple, the comet expert of the staff. Also speaking will be Dr. Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, Dr. T. E. Sterne, and Miss Henrietta H. Swope...
Back from the war, a newsman's hero, he might have had a better job, but Jock Bellairs went on covering police. He helped to break in Herbert Bayard Swope, Theodore Dreiser, Paul Y. Anderson-all cubs when Jock was already a veteran. His exploits were legend in St. Louis. Once, with some friends, he dragged a dead Chinese to a bar, drank heartily, left the Chinese to pay the bill. Once he tried to drive a horse and buggy across the Mississippi River...
...Irving Berlin wrote this song for Kate Smith in 1938. Last week he assigned its royalties-$43,646 to date -to patriotic causes to be selected by Gene Tunney, Herbert Bayard Swope, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. As a starter they picked the Boy and Girl Scouts...
...Heywood Broun. There were faces from Washington (Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter), from City Hall (Mayor LaGuardia), from Broadway (Tallulah Bankhead, George M. Cohan, George S. Kaufman, Irving Berlin), from newspaper row (pavement-pounding reporters along with Franklin P. Adams, Westbrook Pegler, Rollin Kirby, Roy W. Howard, Herbert Bayard Swope). Many friends of Heywood Broun, accustomed to going to church only for funerals and weddings, did not know when to kneel or bow. Few of them had ever heard a funeral oration like that which was presently delivered to them by the man who last spring baptized Heywood Broun...