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...were circulated by the Kremlin, but public curiosity for the real facts was so strong that every news kiosk was surrounded as soon as fresh papers arrived. Eager Russians snatched, read and flung down tons of papers in disgust when they proved to contain only propaganda, such as this telegram from beyond the Arctic Circle: "WE SHOCK BRIGADE WORKERS ON THE NEVA HYDROELECTRIC STATION PLEDGE OURSELVES TO COMPLETE IT AHEAD OF TIME AS OUR ANSWER TO THE DASTARDLY ASSASSINATION OF COMRADE KIROV." The city of Vyatka, capital of the province in which the slain Big Red was born, asked...
...looks like Mr. Barton looking like Mr. Hull," reported Robert Garland for the World-Telegram, "but he wouldn't leave Grandma Lester lying dead out in the field. He'd bury her." Comparisons noted, critics agreed that Jeeter was still being capably performed, predicted that Tobacco Road, with a year's impetus behind it, was well on its way to setting another Abie's Irish Rose endurance record...
Fortnight ago the advertising conference room filled up, as usual, with Herald Tribune solicitors whose problem, as usual, was to convince space buyers that they would do better to advertise in a morning paper like the Herald Tribune than in an evening paper like the Sun or World-Telegram. Suddenly Porter Carruthers jumped to announce that the staff would now try something new in attacking this old problem. Two porters wheeled in a piano. Composer Fred Fisher ("Dardanella," "Chicago," "Chasing Rainbows," "Peg o' My Heart," "There's a Broken Heart for Every Light on Broadway"), took his place...
William Irwin Grubb was appointed Federal Judge 25 years ago by William Howard Taft after that fun-loving President received the following telegram from a group of Birmingham lawyers: NORTH ALABAMA IS STARVING FOR JUSTICE STOP FOR GOD'S SAKE GIVE US GRUBB. Now 72, slight, wiry and a Democrat, Judge Grubb runs his courtroom smartly, shames attorneys who waste his time. Born & bred in Cincinnati, he went to Yale with a brother of President Taft. His opinion last week was handed down in denying a TVA motion to dismiss an injunction petition filed by a group of Alabama Power...
...Band was climaxing its season at the annual banquet at the Union last night, announcement was made of a telegram from the Columbia Broadcasting System, asking them to play on a half-hour program over the radio on December...