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...vice president of Pictorial Review since last April, and Lee Ellmaker, lately general manager of Macfadden Publications and publisher of Liberty since Macfadden bought it. Large and fat, Lee Ellmaker has the reputation of being a shrewd publisher. With the financial help of U. S. Senator-reject William Scott Vare, whom he had previously served as secretary, he established the tabloid Daily News in Philadelphia, built it up to be a moneymaker, sold control to Macfadden, whose only successful newspaper it now is. Because of his flair for economy, he became known, to his distaste, as Macfadden's "efficiency...
...that mine is not the form of Apollo, but it is too late for either of us to do anything about that. But if I present what to you are strange or unfamiliar phenomena, it is you who should be ashamed, not I." The rise of Philadelphia's Vare brothers worried Penrose's declining years; more & more he found he had to do business with them. But he was still technically Boss of Pennsylvania when Death, which had long been stalking him, came at last...
...head bent. Suddenly he would straighten up to cut in on a debate. Never a maker of long formal speeches he drawled out words that stung his adversaries, bitter words that left scars. Not soon will Truman Newberry or Albert Bacon Fall or Harry Micajah Daugherty or William Scott Vare or Frank Leslie Smith, Republicans all, forget the things that the narrow-eyed junior Senator from Arkansas said to them and about them. Less nimble-witted Republicans used to call him a common scold...
...choices for this prime political post. Claudius Hart Huston had to retire in near disgrace. Fussbudgety little Senator Fess of Ohio, present incumbent, is widely rated a party liability. Last week the Wet Eastern wing of the G. 0. P. renewed its cries for his removal. William Scott ("Boss") Vare, Pennsylvania's Senator-reject whose plumping for Herbert Hoover at Kansas City in 1928 gave him the nomination on the first ballot, declared: "The people are tired of Prohibition . . . the re-election of President Hoover is extremely doubtful. . . . Unless the policies of the party are changed, I doubt that...
Married. Dorothy Vare, daughter of the late Pennsylvania State Senator Edwin H. Vare, niece of U. S. Senator-reject William Scott ("Boss") Vare; and Thomas Read Hulme, son of Vice President Thomas Wilkins Hulme of the Pennsylvania Railroad; at Ambler, Pa. Giver-away: Edwin H. Vare Jr. who married Golfer Glenna Collett (TIME, July...